Clopen Mic Night

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

Carmy is a brilliant young chef. Trained in the world’s finest kitchens, he is putting the final touches to a new dish, which he presents to his head chef. The dish is elegant and refined, wi…

The history and etymological connections in 1, 2 and 3.

Earlier this week I posted a matrix multiplication worksheet on Mastodon. If you do some of these, you might spot what’s funny about them. For example. \[ \Large \begin{bmatrix}\color{navy}{4…

The London Museum of Water & Steam has launched an urgent appeal to help save the two huge steam engines housed inside its Georgian pumping station.

A few weeks ago I heard someone casually refer to ‘that formula of Euler’s that generates primes’. I hadn’t heard of this, but it turns out that in 1772 Euler produced this formula: \[ …

Please note down the new value of pi: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306...

“After I had discovered true intervals of the orbits by ceaseless labour over a very long time and with the help of Brahe’s observations, finally the true proportion of the orbits showed itself to me....