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Start: 19:30
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I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." | ||
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02 / 6
Start: 14:00
End: 16:00
Just a little note to say that the mathsest cafe in all the world continues this week... Food. Help. Joy. Undergrad workroom wednesdays 2pm-4pm. | ||
02 / 7
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
Possibly the greatest unsung triumph in mathematics is the classification of the finite simple groups, put together by literally hundreds of mathematicians over the last century. Simple groups are the "building blocks" of symmetry, and the classification throws up 26 oddities, including the infamous "Monster Group". The proof - spread over some 10000 pages of journal articles - uses some quite impenetrable specialised techniques. But we can get a flavour of it just by looking at some of the simplest cases, using the work of Lagrange, Sylow, Lie, Poincaré and many others. | ||
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02 / 11
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
In this talk Owen Daniel will actively seek to join together two fields of interest: recreational mathematics, and magic. Owen has been recognised by the Magic Circle as the two time winner of the Blanchard Trophy, and was placed 3rd in their 'Junior Close Up Magician of the Year' competition, at the age of only 15. | ||
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02 / 13
Start: 14:00
End: 16:00
It's happening again. More maths help, more cake, tea, coffee, banter, joy, magic etc. Join our crack team of helpers this wednesday 2-4 in the undergad common room. | ||
02 / 14
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
The language of categories and functors is not only an indispensable tool in many areas of high-level mathematics, but is itself an incredibly interesting subject, worthy of study in its own right. Based on notions developed in the 1940s by Mac Lane and Eilenberg, category theory (or "generalised abstract nonsense" as it is sometimes known) attempts to unify mathematics by describing similar structures through the subject in terms of "objects" and "arrows". | ||
02 / 15
Start: 15:00
End: 16:00
First years of beleaguered matlab mourning-end your upset now. WMS, your favourite society, are running our own very special informal help sessions for you, just because you asked us to. Crash courses, which can be requested here are our by request talks on any areas you find (after the best efforts of your lecturer) you still don't understand. Matlab, that most baffling and utterly un-user-friendly of things is first on the slab. We kick off with an informal talk on the heuristics of the subject (led by Jamie Sawyer MS04 3pm-about 4pm this Friday), and we'll be booking extra support from there. The dream is: smaller class, more contact, less intimidation. Questions aplenty can and should be asked. See y'all there. | ||
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02 / 18
Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
A few weeks ago Tom Boardman gave a talk on homology and De Rham Cohomology. Unfortunately by the time he got to the second (possibly more interesting) bit it was 9pm and he sort of rushed through it at a baffling rate. This monday 7:30 MS03, balance will be restored as differential forms are built up from first principles to the abstract and awesomely powerful theory that now forms the heart of a millenium prize problem (The Hodge Conjecture). Theorems will be proved, fun will be had. | ||
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02 / 20
Start: 14:00
End: 15:00
Just a note to say Maths Cafe is happening this week- though it's going to be a little shorter than usual... We start at 2 as usual, knuckling down to an hour of hardcore maths/cake eating, but at 3 it's off to watch the fabulous hustingness... ...We should be around again for a little while afterwards though in case anyone's completely stumped... Start: 15:00
End: 17:00
A chance to outline policy and temperament, rectifying the bias of web voting, democracy in action... Or just an unfair advantage to the loud ones? Wednesday 20th Feb 3pm, will be your chance to point out the division by zero in your opponent's manifesto, or show members how committed to revision guides you are. Debate, discussion and derision (though hopefully not the last one, I just needed an extra 'D') aplently. Just debate and discussion then. Meet in the Undergraduate Workroom and we'll go from there! | ||
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Start: 19:30
End: 21:00
Ever wondered how your emails got from one side of the world to another, or even how you know they'll ever get there? Questions like this arise when you try to move data through a network, how can we answer such puzzles? Steven Jones talks us though one promising approach developed in the last few (4) years: Routing Algebras. Starting with a meta-presentation of his 4th year project talk (i.e. get some hot tips for if/when you do yours) followed by an in-depth discussion of meta-routing. Abstract Algebra meets an unlikely mate: usefulness; in this discussion group that's sure to set pulses racing with it's powerpoint slides and real world applications. Then we experimentally find a path to the pub. | ||
