Happy New Year, everyone! Sorry, there hasn’t been much activity on this blog over the past few months, but 2011 will be the year when you can expect a lot more stuff to be posted as I find mor...
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/
Who doesn’t like self-referential paradoxes? There is something about them that appeals to all and sundry. And, there is also a certain air of mystery associated with them, but when people talk...
Sorry, there hasn’t been much activity on this blog lately – which is an understatement, I acknowledge! But, for now, here’s a small article by Terry Tao on CNNOpinion.
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/hooked-for-life-on-math/
Among several things, these days, I have been doing some (serious) reading of literature on psychology, cognitive development, learning, linguistics, philosophy and a few other subjects. Well, th...
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/an-experiment-in-cognitive-reasoning/
The following piece of news, in my humble opinion, deserves more mention in the math blogosphere than it has garnered so far. At the center of the story is an Iranian student of mathematics, Mahm...
Huh — no solutions to POW-13 came in! I guess I was surprised by that. Ah well, that’s okay. The problem wasn’t exactly trivial; there are some fairly deep and interesting things going on...
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/solution-to-pow-13-highly-coincidental/
There is quite a buzz on the physics (and also math) blogospheres over the release of seven videotaped lectures, which were delivered by Richard P. Feynman as part of Cornell University’s Messe...
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/the-character-of-physical-law/
It’s been an awfully long time since I’ve posted anything; time to finally break the silence. This problem appeared elsewhere on the internet some months ago; some of you may have already see...
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/pow-13-highly-coincidental/
High-school students and undergraduates are (almost) always taught the following definition of an equivalence relation. A binary relation on a set is an equivalence iff it satisfies the reflexive...
Welcome to the 54th Carnival of Mathematics, and Happy Fourth of July to our American readers! Indeed, the carnival should have been hosted yesterday, and I apologize for being a day late. Trivia...
https://topologicalmusings.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/the-54th-carnival-of-mathematics/