Lots of your friends might be very upset this Christmas, Boris has decisively won the election and consequently we are definitely leaving the EU. To make their day you can also explain about why they [more…]
Wilson’s Theorem is a test for primality. It is inefficient for large numbers since factorials () grow very fast. Nevertheless, it has its uses because of its simplicity. It was conjectured by Wilson and published [more…]
Swiss Bob’s favourite place of work – not actually in the main building, we were fortunate to be about 50m away where we couldn’t be seen staggering back from 2-4 hour lunches This is going [more…]
Euler gave us this jewel which is regarded by many as the most beautiful equation in mathematics; it has both elegance and simplicity. It is comprised of five fundamental numbers and the operations of addition, [more…]
One of the areas in which the UK has lost control during its membership of the EU is that of being able to respond to the climate change agenda. True, both the UK and the [more…]
Yet another climate protest against our use of fossil fuels. Spokes-persons berate us over air-waves driven by generated electricity carried by steel pylons cemented into the ground. They sit in a studio with its array [more…]
A binary operation is said to commute if the order of the operands does not alter the result. In the real numbers, , the following commutative laws hold : for all for all Although these [more…]
Or : Multiplying by . The beginning of complex numbers is often attributed to Cardano (1501 – 1576). Complex numbers provide a solution to the equation . They are an extension of the number system [more…]
– Astrophysicists have succeeded in decoding Solar activity and the results show that climate scientists have some questions to answer. There is an interesting collision about to take place between astrophysics and climate science. This [more…]
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