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Category Archives: doing mathematics
Aliens Do Exist
The people from the planet Ade have intercepted radio transmissions from Earth, and have discovered that we know about the Petersen graph and the root system E6. One day, a flying saucer from Ade arrives on Earth and delivers an … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, events
Tagged Petersen graph, random graph, root systems, Sira Gratz, University of Leeds
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The Hall–Paige conjecture
A Latin square of ordern is an n×n array of symbols from an alphabet of size n with the property that each symbol in the alphabet occurs once in each row or column. Two Latin squares L and M are … Continue reading
Kourovka Notebook, 19th edition
The latest edition (the 19th) of the Kourovka Notebook has just been released. It now has its own website, https://kourovka-notebook.org/. The Kourovka Notebook has been going for more than 50 years, longer than my life as a mathematician. It is … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, history, open problems
Tagged identical relations, Kourovka Notebook, open problems
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Mathematical collaboration
I have just spent an entire weekend at a workshop on mathematical collaboration. It blew a huge hole in the time that I had to get on with urgent work that needs to be done, but it was such a … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, events
Tagged collaboration, experimental philosophy, Fenner Tanswell, Josh Habgood-Coote, Paul Erdős, virtue theory
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Another Cameron–Erdős problem solved
In 1990, Paul Erdős and I published a paper on the topic of counting subsets of the first n natural numbers satisfying some restriction. The case we worked hardest on, and which attracted the most interest (it has its own … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, Uncategorized
Tagged Cameron--Erdos, forbidding divisibility
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Integrals of groups
Everyone who has studied mathematics knows what the derivative and integral of a function are. The derivative measures rate of change, the integral (the inverse operation) measures area under a curve. They are inverse operations; and two functions have the … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged abelian group, derived subgroup, Frattini subgroup, inverse group theory
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A counting problem
I quite often get questions by email. Mostly I can’t answer them, but sometimes I can, and sometimes the answers might be of more general interest. Suppose that we have m boxes and a supply of identical balls. In how … Continue reading
Posted in doing mathematics, exposition
Tagged balls in boxes, Cycle Index Theorem, oligomorphic permutation groups
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