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Category Archives: numbers
2-3-5-7-11
Yesterday, my friend and ex-colleague Dan Hughes emailed a group of his friends to explain that he had established that earth had been visited in antiquity by alien group theorists. How else to explain that the number of minutes in … Continue reading
Numbers Farm
In Kings Langley, just north-west of London on the Grand Union Canal, behind the railway station you will find Numbers Farm. What crops do they grow there? Here are some of the staples: In the further-flung fields you find more … Continue reading
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Large numbers
Littlewood published an article entitled “Large numbers” in the Mathematical Gazette in 1948. One of his examples depends on his own theorem about the relation between π(x) (the number of primes up to x) and li(x) (the integral of 1/log t … Continue reading
Posted in exposition, numbers, open problems
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The symmetric group, 1
This is the first of a short series of posts which will try to look at the symmetric group in slightly fresh ways. It is in part a fraternal greeting to my friends on SymOmega, who named their blog after … Continue reading
Posted in books, exposition, numbers, symmetric group
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Counting
I’m teaching enumerative combinatorics this term; it brings an old incident back to my mind. In 1984, Dugald Macpherson and I stopped for breakfast at a Dutch pancake house near Vancouver. The restaurant offered a choice of “1001 toppings”. We … Continue reading
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