Category Archives: Neill Cameron artwork

How to draw the future

Posted on 10/07/2016 by Peter Cameron

For Neill’s take on it, see this in the Guardian.

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How the light got in, 2016

Posted on 05/06/2016 by Peter Cameron

After two days in Hay-on-Wye at How the Light Gets In, I am back (temporarily) in London, my next gigs (in fairly quick succession) Oxford, Istanbul, and Lisbon. Unlike the deep Glastonbury-style mud of two years ago, we had lovely … Continue reading →

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The synchronizing monster

Posted on 11/11/2015 by Peter Cameron

Today, a long paper on synchronizing groups (108 pages), by João Araújo, Ben Steinberg, and me, appears on the arXiv. It has been a long time coming. To quote from a post of mine in 2010, I became involved in … Continue reading →

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G. C. Steward lectures 2008

Posted on 05/04/2015 by Peter Cameron

While I was uploading lecture notes, I also put on the page the notes from my G. C. Steward lectures at Gonville and Caius College in 2008. You can find them here. I spent the first half of 2008 in … Continue reading →

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Pirates of Pangaea

Posted on 05/03/2015 by Peter Cameron

Neill’s new book came out a little while ago, and this morning I saw that he had finally got round to announcing it on his blog, and asking people to spread the news by word of mouth, since the publishers … Continue reading →

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Birthday musings

Posted on 23/01/2014 by Peter Cameron

Today I am two thirds of the way to a century, rounded up – in other words, in my prime once again. I certainly need a feeling of primality! Something that happened a week or so ago brought home to … Continue reading →

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From the archive, 3

Posted on 02/01/2014 by Peter Cameron

This is what I looked like in 1991: And here is evidence for the Cameron–Erdős conjecture before it was proved:

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Mathematical structures, 3

Posted on 11/10/2012 by Peter Cameron

Week 3 is over. The notes are on the web, but I didn’t actually cover everything in the notes. The plan was that part of notes 2 (the counting results such as Inclusion–Exclusion and the Binomial Theorem) would spill over … Continue reading →

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Gleanings

Posted on 17/07/2012 by Peter Cameron

I couldn’t resist mentioning a couple of things from recent blogs. On Dick Lipton’s and Ken Regan’s wonderful blog “Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP”, there is a post about on-line university courses, and whether traditional courses are doomed. What a … Continue reading →

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LTCC intensive course this week

Posted on 11/06/2012 by Peter Cameron

Linking two previous posts, here and here: The LTCC intensive on “Laplacian Eigenvalues and Optimality”, a pure maths/statistics crossover, takes place on Wednesday and Thursday this week, starting at 1pm on Wednesday, in the Rockefeller Building, Gower Street, London (opposite … Continue reading →

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