Category Archives: Mathematics

Very odd odds: Unusual dice

Posted on July 3, 2008 by

I’m still in the midst of a massive move into a new house, but everything has at least been moved from point A to point B; now the unpacking, organizing and fixing of things begins. I’ll hopefully get back to … Continue reading →

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Mathematicians on Mortgages

Posted on June 9, 2008 by

In a nice little coincidence, recently two mathematics bloggers have decided to give a bit of a description of the subprime mortgage market crisis.  Neither is an economist, but that’s probably okay, even preferable, considering it was the economists who … Continue reading →

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Event horizons in water flow: the math!

Posted on March 15, 2008 by

In a previous post, I discussed recent research which demonstrated the creation of an artificial ‘event horizon’ in a fiber optic cable. In that post, I described how a river speeding up as it goes towards a waterfall has an … Continue reading →

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Math fonts in LaTeX

Posted on February 22, 2008 by

Over at The Daily Photon, Andrew Dawes has put up a nice post outlining how to use different fonts in LaTeX: including finding a math font that matches the text. I find this especially helpful because, in writing Powerpoint talks, … Continue reading →

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A LaTeX how-to (for windows)

Posted on January 13, 2008 by

There was a nice post on Good Math, Bad Math about Donald Knuth’s classic scientific typesetting software, TeX. In the comments section, a number of people asked about how to learn to use the software. I thought I’d write a … Continue reading →

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