In The Bleak Midwinter

“Rise above oneself and grasp the world” These are awarded every four years for advancement in the field of mathematics.  There is an age limit of 40 on the recipients.  It is a recognition of [more…]

Firstly Postaliers, allow me to apologise for not supplying the usual bi-weekly fix of ramblings and inanities on the 5th of December. Life got in the way a bit, but I’m back (for the foreseeable), [more…]

Euler’s totient function counts the number of positive integers up to that are relatively prime to , where is considered to be relatively prime to all .  These numbers are called the totatives of . [more…]