Tony's Maths Blog

Welcome to Carnival of Mathematics issue 249!

I make no claims to be a statistician (though I recently read a textbook* on Bayesian probability from cover to cover) and I apologise for any errors in this post: my excuse, in the words of Dr Johnson, is "Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance".

I've reconstructed a puzzle which I remember being amused by when I came across it in a school textbook.

Earlier this week, on 24 February, my Wordle streak of over 200 successes came to a sad end.

This isn't really maths (except in so far as all computing is maths) but I am going to vent a couple of frustrations regarding laptops.

I have a horrible feeling that a long time ago I believed, and perhaps even tried ti persuade others, that mathematics is different from other forms of human knowledge and endeavour.

I'm delighted to host for the second time the monthly Carnival of Mathematics for August 2023.

Following the 24 Hour Maths Magic Show two years ago, this coming weekend brings the 24 Hour Maths Game Show!

How did mathematicians cope with the Covid lockdowns?

Emma Raducanu's feat of winning the US Open as a qualifier, without dropping a set in her ten matches, was astonishing.

Here's a variation on my previous post - another piece of hand-waving probabilistic reasoning, which I think is basically correct, but I suspect many will disagree.

When I was an undergraduate, I was walking through the town centre one morning when a journalist from the student newspaper asked my views on the Rag Mag that had just appeared.

I spent last weekend at the online conference Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today, hosted by the University of Greenwich and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

I haven't watched the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, but (prompted by a review in Private Eye) I've just read Walter Tevis's 1983 novel on which it is based.

Peter M.

So over the last few weeks I have performed a couple of mathematical magic tricks which I have put on my Youtube channel.

The mathematician John Horton Conway died just over a week ago.

I' am one of these annoying people who loves self-reference.

I have always underestimated the interest value of the Tower of Hanoi problem.

Another New Year, another resolution to write more blog posts.

So in ten days time the University is hosting Greenwich Maths Time, the 2019 IMA Festival of Mathematics and its Applications.

The Big Internet MathOff is now taking place.

I was lucky enough to attend a meeting organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics on "The History of Cryptography and Coding".

A couple of weeks ago, I got onto my morning bus, climbed the stairs, holding on as the bus lurched forward, and sat down, to hear for the first time the new announcement "Please hold on: the bus is about to move", introduced by TfL (Transport for London).

Here is my overdue post on last weekend's MathsJam gathering.