It’s early in the year, perilously close to the “Worst Day of the Year”, and already we’ve been gifted a story in which a junior academic has earned publicity for himself with a pointlessly promotional maths paper.
Maths-Whizz Blog
To learn, fail
October 28th, 2009A week ago, the Scientific American reported on findings that demonstrated a fact at first counter-intuitive, but obvious with hindsight, and something Maths-Whizzers would do well to remember:
It is often better to fail something in order to learn it better.
Maths Abuse…
July 27th, 2009Periodically the God of Maths-Whizz receives Google email alerts about the world of maths. These tell him who is blogging, posting comments, writing news and press releases with ‘maths’ mentioned somewhere.
It has come to the attention of the God of Whizz that ‘maths’ or ‘math’ is a word too often used in anger than in scientific or mathematical description. It has become an epithet, almost.
Learn Maths – land men on the moon
July 17th, 2009In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, it’s the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, and an opportunity to recall a tremendous feat of science, exploration and verve. The achievement has since inspired millions.
