I republish my post of 25 August 2006 from now defunct old incarnation of this blog. I am prompted by Phil Beadle’s paper on blackboards, You can’t dance in front of an interactive button, in The Guardian, 28 October 2008. I feel privelidged that Bealde quotes my post at length. As reciprocity, a wonderful quote from Beal:
If I [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Psychophysiology of Blackboard Teaching
Posted in Uncategorized on October 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Save The London Mathematical Society
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another blog on an urgent issue. Please do not leave your comments here, visit Save The London Mathematical Society.
Why there is only one way of doing mathematics?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Peter McBurney kindly send a link to a paper in Science on Japanese mathematics in 17th century. A quote:
Seki worked on determinants simultaneously with Leibniz, another mathematician whose work went unrecognized for decades because he never published it. “There were striking similarities in mathematical thinking” between the two men, says Eberhard Knobloch, a Leibniz scholar at [...]
Shoot-out in the Hall of Mirrors
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My answer to a traditional question: “You are a mathematician. What do you actually do?”
I study symmetries. More precisely, I study multi-mirror symmetries, when mirrors get reflected in other mirrors, and reflections breed and multiply all over the place. I design ways to find safe paths in the maze of mirrors, and to tell real [...]
Matryoshka doll icosahedral cluster
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The isolable matryoshka nesting doll icosahedral cluster [As@Ni12@As20]3– as a superatom: analogy with the jellium cluster Al13– generated in the gas phase by laser vaporizationR. Bruce King and Jijun Zhao
The valence electrons in the recently reported icosahedral cluster [As@Ni12@As20]3– with a Russian matryoshka nesting doll structure can be partitioned so that the central As atom has the rare gas [...]
