Category Archives: the Web

me and the World Wide Web

World Digital Mathematical Library

Posted on 10/05/2013 by

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 →

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The Cloud

Posted on 02/04/2013 by

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all Joni Mitchell, Both sides now When I first heard the term “cloud computing”, … Continue reading →

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Eye candy

Posted on 02/01/2013 by

As an experiment, I have put my list of walks and pictures (one per month for the last few years) into my Dropbox public folder. Much easier than uploading the pictures individually to the blog! You can find it here. … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on 31/12/2012 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 78,000 times in 2012. If it were … Continue reading →

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An interview

Posted on 30/11/2012 by

Mathblogging.org are doing interviews with mathematical bloggers. My turn came up; the result is here.

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LMS elections

Posted on 17/10/2012 by

This year, for the first time, the London Mathematical Society has introduced on-line voting in their annual elections, as an alternative to voting on paper. It is being implemented by the Electoral Reform Society, about whom I know little – … Continue reading →

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Open access publishing

Posted on 19/05/2012 by

Open access publishing is back in the news. Tim Gowers reports that Horizon 2020, Europe’s “Framework Programme for Research and Innovation”, is to support (or require?) open access publication of the research it supports. They have not given precise details … Continue reading →

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Centre for Discrete Mathematics

Posted on 01/05/2012 by

This is to announce, not the founding of a Centre for Discrete Mathematics at Queen Mary (that happened a few months ago), but a new website for it, at qmdiscrete.wordpress.com The Centre for Discrete Mathematics You might be slightly surprised … Continue reading →

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Back issues

Posted on 14/04/2012 by

As I have said many times before (and probably bored most people rigid), I’m not of the blogging generation; I am not at all sure why visitors come here, or what they are looking for. It is not true that … Continue reading →

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Information, postmodernism and time signatures

Posted on 15/02/2012 by

I was given the book Information is Beautiful by David McCandless. It is a book which attempts to address the fact that we are given lots of information which we can’t form a mental picture of. (The author says, “Every … Continue reading →

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