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Discovery and invention
Yesterday’s Guardian had an interview with crossword setter John Graham, aka Auarcaria, whom I discussed last week. There are several things in this interview that a mathematician is bound to be struck by. His profession is not so different from … Continue reading
Araucaria
Araucaria is a family of trees that grow in the South Pacific region and neighbouring countries. I grew up familiar with two species, the bunya pine and the Norfolk Island pine; hoop pine is also common in Queensland. Bunya … Continue reading
Education
With the leisure that comes with retirement, I read the Guardian today. There was an open letter to education secretary Michael Gove by Michael Rosen – well worth reading. The irony is laid on a bit thick, but there is … Continue reading
Eye candy
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
The answer
Last Saturday’s Guardian reproduced a few pages from the New York Review of Books. In a review by Thomas Nagel entitled “The Taste for Being Moral”, we read: Article 1 of the UN ‘s Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins: … Continue reading
Overheard, 2
This morning, on the radio, I heard somebody talking about art. There is an artist whose works consist of organisms which have been genetically modified to be luminous. One of these organisms was a rabbit, and the speaker was wondering … Continue reading
The Medusa and the Snail
I just reclaimed one of my favourite books, essays by Lewis Thomas entitled The Medusa and the Snail, published in 1979 (the essays were written at various times in the 1970s). If Lewis Thomas were around now, and if he … Continue reading
A first
I’m sure it’s happened to others, but it’s a first time for me. Amazon tried to sell me one of my own books.
Dan Hughes
I learned from SymOmega that Dan Hughes died yesterday. I owe a huge amount to Dan. He invited Jack van Lint and me to lecture at Westfield College in the early 1970s and encouraged us to publish the lecture notes, … Continue reading
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Andrzej Orchel
This month’s LMS Newsletter carries a brief item: Dr Andrzej W. Orchel, who was elected a member of the London Mathematical Society on 22 November 1969, died on 22 January 2012, aged 65. It is not just the coincidence that … Continue reading
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