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Archive of entries posted on December 2009

The Diverse Faces of Arithmetic

I shall be attending “The Diverse Faces of Arithmetic” in Norwich next week; taking a break from cyclotomic thoughts to revisit some topics I’ve mentioned here in the past, such as elliptic divisibility sequences.

Young Researchers in Mathematics

There are now some videos available from the Beyond Part III / Young Researchers in Mathematics conference I attended earlier this year. Of particular note is David Spiegelhalter’s plenary lecture on probability and uncertainty. I summarised one of the ideas from that talk – the micromort – on Everything2, mentioning a comparison between the risks [...]