Thing I Might Blog About
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This was intended to be called "Things I might blog about" but somehow the "s" got lost.
Oh well.
This page has been
Tagged As Dump
I needed a place to put these and get people to comment:
See also:
Blog Topics
Pre Blog Notes
Colins Blog Before 2007
Colins Blog 2007
The Big List
Time Complexity <- Underway
... and I should return to it.
Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
People aren't lazy, they just stop reading quickly
Explaining NULL, remembering the dominant chatter.
Farrago diagram
Non-repeating can be created, hence transcendentals
Proving a specific individual number to be T is hard
But nearly everything (in a technical sense) is T.
Blackjack
Hexagons
Signal reflection
Overhead line damage, catching all the greens, be careful of how scathing you may be.
Companies are sociopaths
Puzzle World vs Crypto World
Big-Oh and Complexity
Integer sequence
The tr bug
AMPS
D3 Rant
10^e -> e
3 cubes and the optimiser
What are complex numbers?
Completion of Q^2
Can't have multiplication in R^3
Complex numbers for fun and profit
A+B=C in three squares
Gamow's Treasure puzzle
Folding the napkin
Napolean's Propellor
... more?
An elevator pitch for Group Theory
Integers with addition
Positive rationals with multiplication
Non-zero rationals with multiplication
Symmetries of a die
Permutations
How many sides has a circle?
Can you ever see the Moon's terminator as a vertical straight line?
Bonus points: Horizontal
Continuous at irrationals, discontinuous at rationals
Thirteen piles of four
Every bi-coloured complete
infinite
graph has a mono-chromatic
infinite
sub-graph
The three cubes in a fish pond problem
Maths in a Twist
The Real Projective Plane
The Cross-Cap
Different embeddings of the
Klein Bottle
Pythagoras and the Napkin Ring
Necessary vs Sufficient
(I did an MEI talk on that - wonder where it is)
Monty Hall
What if opening the other door is random?
What if Monty only opens a door if you have the prize?
What about variants of numbers chosen?
Monty Hall Variant
I'll add others as I sweep them up from their various hiding places.
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