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Wiles and Langlands
One of the best things that pops regularly into my pigeonhole is the European Mathematical Society Newsletter. The current issue, number 104, is particularly rich in interesting articles. For example, there is the transcript of a talk by Christian Krattenthaler … Continue reading
Posted in exposition, mathematics and ..., Uncategorized
Tagged Diophantine equations, Galois representations, Langlands, Wiles
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Mike O’Nan
I just heard the news that Mike O’Nan died on Monday. I never knew him well, but I know for sure that his name will not be forgotten: a sporadic simple group, a theorem about maximal subgroups of symmetric groups … Continue reading
Devon holiday
Last week we were on holiday, with Liz in Yealmpton (a village with a remarkable sequence of consonants in its name) on the river Yealm in west Devon. Liz had organised a remarkable holiday for us in this attractive part … Continue reading
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Tagged Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor, Garden House, Lanhydrock, Postbridge, Saltram, Totnes, Wistmanswood, Yealmpton
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A prize
Time for a little blast on my own trumpet. At the meeting of the London Mathematical Society today, it was announced that I am the winner of the Senior Whitehead Prize this year. The rules for the prize state, in … Continue reading
Sesqui-arrays
Rosemary Bailey, Tomas Nilson and I have just put a paper on the arXiv on this topic. I discussed related things here last year, but here is a reminder. A triple array is an r×c array whose entries are from … Continue reading
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Tagged Agrawal's conjecture, biplanes, Marshall Hall, Tomas Nilson, triple arrays
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Impostor Syndrome
I have learned a new term: Impostor Syndrome. This came up in a report in the London Mathematical Society newsletter of a meeting in St Andrews on gender diversity in mathematics (which I didn’t attend). Impostor Syndrome is described by … Continue reading
Synchronization and separation in the Johnson schemes
Today a paper by Mohammed Aljohani, John Bamberg and me went on the arXiv on this topic. Here is a brief summary of what it is about. Synchronization comes in several flavours, and the point of the paper is to … Continue reading
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Tagged association scheme, Peter Keevash, Philippe Delsarte, separation, synchronization
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