soliton1 - Chalkdust

Nora is a master’s student at UCL, interested in applied maths. When not studying, you can (almost always) find her reading.

Significant figures: Sofya Kovalevskaya
Nora Koparan tells the story of the first female professor of mathematics
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
How can we tell that 2≠1?
Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
How many quadratics factorise?
Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...
Top ten vote issue 04
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Hunting for polydivisibles
The search for polydivisible numbers in different bases: how many can you find?