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A history of Merton College
The book A History of Merton College, by G. H. Martin and J. R. L. Highfield, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. I have had a copy for some time but, to my shame, have only just read it. Roger Highfield was a … Continue reading
Kilvington’s Sophismata
The last chapter of Mathematical Structures was about how to spot false proofs. Of course, I am not the first to do this. A curious chain (I may tell about this later) led me to The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington. … Continue reading
Posted in books, history
Tagged Aristotle, Merton mathematicians, Richard Kilvinton, sophismata, Thomas Aquinas
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Mathematical Structures: the aftermath
The academic year finished off with two rather different events: my LMS–Gresham lecture about the Mathematical Structures course, and marking the approximately 270 scripts. The LMS–Gresham Lecture Last week I gave the annual LMS–Gresham lecture. When they asked me to … Continue reading
London Combinatorics Colloquia, 2
It’s that time of year again, and while I miss the buttercups in Reading, we had as usual a feast of interesting mathematics and a large and enthusiastic audience. It was a bit more tightly focussed than I would have … Continue reading
Posted in events, exposition
Tagged amenability, Ben Green, Cayley graphs, Endre Szemeredi, Gabor Kun, Noga Alon, Norman Biggs, Regularity Lemma, sum-free sets
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Conference proceedings
In some subjects, a paper in a prestigious conference proceedings is the pinnacle of a researcher’s career. It has never really been so in mathematics, and is now less so than ever. This is partly, I think, because of the … Continue reading
Ubuntu upgrade
My Meenee laptop, running Ubuntu, has become a necessity for me. For the entire month of April, it was the only computing resource I had. So I got a bit of a shock recently when it started nagging me to … Continue reading
World Digital Mathematical Library
Many things that have happened recently in mathematical publishing — chiefly the lemming-like rush for gold open access — have seemed rather negative to me. You are probably tired of my carping. So it is nice to report something positive … Continue reading
Conference walks
Important: Marcin Krzywkowski has asked for the walks to be swapped, i.e. the Chilterns walk on the Sunday before the conference. Is there any support for this? It would be an all-day walk; we might upgrade the Thursday walk to … Continue reading
Finite geometry and probabilistic combinatorics
In the late 1960s, when I was born as a mathematician, I worked on finite permutation groups, on the edge of finite geometry and the combinatorics of very regular structures. I was dimly aware that there was a completely different … Continue reading
HEFCE and open access
I read the HEFCE document that Ursula drew attention to in her comment on my recent post about the LMS and open access. There are a couple of things we should be aware of. It is a consultation document, released … Continue reading
