Приветствие
Hello! My name is Colin, and I am a mathematician on a mission to share and spread the joy of doing maths for its own sake.
Текущее положение дел
It’s half term down here in Dorset, which puts my already-tenuous grasp of what day it is completely out of whack. It’s only blind luck that means you’re getting a DMFT at all.
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As Christian Lawson-Perfect once said, I’ve got four-twenty-ten-nine problems, but counting in French ain’t one. CLP should be glad he isn’t Danish.
At the time of writing, Hurricane Melissa is wreaking havoc across the Caribbean. This has led me to the idea of spaghetti models and a real-time spaghetti map.
I’m sure you’ve often thought, “I wish there was a number system that would be helpful in the design of match-making systems such as dating apps.” If so, you’ll be delighted to learn about the split-complex numbers.
In other things you’ve always wished for, here is Fractal Kitty’s Fibonacci-themed threes-like game. No, YOU just played it for an hour. (It’s more forgiving than 2048 and DiVE, I think.)
A lovely old post from Mr Chase, who covered a wall of his classroom in a random walk. Excellent stuff!
Текущие события
There’s a Finite Group livestream today (Wednesday, October 29th, 3 pm UK time), in which Ayliean and Scroggs will discuss tilings. (Both Sam Hartburn and I have been working on Pseudorandom Ensemble songs that involve pentagonal tilings.)
For the last time this year, I remind you that Mathober is ongoing — I encourage you to use the prompts to create mathematical art, or whatever else tickles your fancy.
It’s getting close to Carnival time: submit your interesting maths stories in the next few days, and Robin will collate them into a post in short order. Here’s a post about Sophie Germain’s identity.
Заключение
That’s all I’ve got for this week. If you have friends and/or colleagues who would enjoy Double Maths First Thing, do send them the link to sign up — they’ll be very welcome here.
If you’ve missed the previous issues of DMFT or — somehow — this one, you can find the archive courtesy of my dear friends at the Aperiodical.
Meanwhile, if there’s something I should know about, you can find me on Mathstodon as @icecolbeveridge, or at my personal website. You can also just reply to this email if there’s something you want to tell me.
Until next time,
C