PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 11/12/22
Can we take a second to appreciate the date?? Number theory... ish Can you find an interval of 999 numbers such that there are no primes...
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Logic Intro
In your time studying mathematics, you will undoubtedly come across some Mathematician and Philosopher bickering over which subject gets...
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PROBLEMS OF THE DAY 04/12
Probability On their daily commute to Mars, 100 aliens sit in a passenger spaceship with 100 seats (labelled 1-100). Each alien has a...
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PROBLEMS OF THE DAY
To entice you into trying a new field of maths, I thought I might try introducing a few through some fascinating problems. They may or...
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What is Combinatorics?
When you start to do maths puzzles for fun (it's not as lame as it seems trust me), you will come across a style of question all to do...
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What is P=NP?
A little teaser for a future post ... if you want to know more about this picture, look up the travelling salesman problem. It is...
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The Millennium Problems
Even if you wouldn't consider yourself a mathematician, you have probably heard of the infamous 'Millennium Problems'. They are 7 famous...
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Fractals
If you step across into the weirder side of maths, you might come across pictures of odd blobby shapes with lace-like edges. These are...
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Geometries????
To use geometry in every-day life, we rely on hundreds of small assumptions and laws. Take the SOH CAH TOA, area of a circle= pi x r^2...
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Maths Lectures vs Videos
Watching real mathematicians talk about maths is key to getting better at maths. These sorts of resources mainly fall into two categories...
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Note taking
For the majority of people, it is difficult to properly absorb large quantities of information without some form of note taking....
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Should all Mathematicians Code?
Solving a mathematics problem is a combination of two activities: Thinking about the logical structures that comprise the backbone a...
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Mathematics is a team sport
For more reasons than mathematicians being notoriously bad at sports, you were probably surprised by the title. After all, Mathematics...
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Free Online Courses
If you have a topic you are interested in, well done! You've done what was the hardest part for me - you looked at topics outside of the...
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Maths Video Channels
There are so many great creators out there these day, I am sure that you would find in really easy to just type in a "____ maths...
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Reading List to get you started
It breaks my heart when I hear people say that interesting Maths is impossible to access as non-mathematicians. The whole point of high...
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