Monday Maths

Animation

24th February 2020 Going Postal 1996 Comments

Ages ago I figured out what to do if you wanted to cut two video scenes together and have them moving at the same pace. I thought you could do some bit of film where [more…]

Interest Calculation

25th November 2019 well_chuffed 3220 Comments

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…]

A Beautiful Equation

18th November 2019 OldTrout 1969 Comments

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…]

The Fields Medal

13th August 2018 OldTrout 3290 Comments

“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…]

Euler’s Totient Function

6th August 2018 OldTrout 1964 Comments

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…]