Well, Triple J has done well this morning. Their live tracks are something to behold, especially since so many of them are real ‘tingly’ tracks. They’ve made my mornings work fly by, finding out where various Babylonian tablets are living, and how to represent 9/10 as an Egyptian fraction. History of Mathematics – top course. …
Tag Archive: Bowling
Mar
01
Nov
18
The Inside Out
I went bowling again this week. It was good fun again, even if on posing for the photos at the end, I made something of a fool of myself. In trying to press the timer button on the camera to legging it round to the rest of the group, I underestimated the slipperiness of a …
Oct
08
Striking Back
Combinatorics might just be the greatest Maths module I have ever taken, even if it did take me a week and a half to realise it wasn’t actually Combinatronics – some sort of Transformer type thing. Real, traditional number puzzles that require you to look at things in difficult ways to find inventive solutions. I’m …