The Laughing Mathematician

Here is a collection of posts that make me laugh or have a mathematical flavour. Hopefully, both.

Sunday, 31 July 2016

Job Advert for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Mapping cortex evolution through mathematical modelling

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Closing Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 12:00 Figure 1. Illustrating the different cortex shapes produced by different animal sp...
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Saturday, 9 July 2016

A Mathematician's Holiday - Problem 7: Fix the Hotel Rooms.

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Requirements: Pen and paper is all that is required. We also use blow up rubber ring to demonstrate the solution. Description: Hav...
Saturday, 25 June 2016

A Mathematician's Holiday - Problem 6: The Tiny Lift.

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Requirements: We use two beards to go along with the story that we have concocted. However, you can use two hats, two name badges, etc. ...
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Saturday, 11 June 2016

A Mathematician's Holiday - Problem 5: Hotel Fire!

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Requirements: Some pieces of string, or rope, depending on the size of your demonstration and a play to draw the diagram below in Fi...
Saturday, 28 May 2016

A Mathematician's Holiday - Problem 4: Bags Mix-up.

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Requirements: Three bags with different named labels. A t-shirt or jumper. Of course, you can dress this problem up in many different wa...
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Saturday, 14 May 2016

A Mathematician's Holiday - Problem 3: Late for the Plane.

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Requirements: Some pieces of string, or rope, depending on the size of your demonstration and a play to draw the diagram below in Figure...
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Saturday, 30 April 2016

A Mathematician's Holiday - Problem 2: Airport security.

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EASY VERSION Requirements: Two containers in the ratio 3:5, for example 75ml and 125ml. We used the bottom of drinks bottles and scaled...
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I am a researcher of mathematical biology at the University of Oxford. Although I now do mathematics as a career I remember how hard maths was when I first started. I also remember what caused things to make sense. I try to relay these insights to everyone, with the hope that they, too, will understand. Home page: http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~woolley/index.htm
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