Maths
I enjoyed maths when I was young, I studied it at university, and at one point I thought this would primarily be a mathematical blog. My studies have fallen by the wayside, but the entries below share some of the maths I’m still following.
I’ve posted my exam advice for maths students (and indeed, any other technical subject).
Lecture notes
I write all of my lecture notes in LaTeK. I have a small number of them posted here for other people to read and use. I include the compiled PDF, and a link to the source code on Github.
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Particular thanks to Prof. Grojnowski, who lectured the course, proofread these notes and allowed me to post them.
6 articles
Splitting a class into balanced groups
How do you make sure everyone gets to work with everyone else?
Picking perfect planks with Python
How do you pick the right combination of planks to lay a wooden floor? Python and itertools to the rescue!
Maths is about facing ambiguity, not avoiding it
School tells us that “Maths always has one right answer!”, which is a convenient but unhelpful lie.
Finding divisors of a number with Python
Using unique prime factorisations and itertools to find all the divisors of a number.
Some exam advice
Some advice for students sitting technical exams
Zero
An essay about the number zero that I wrote for school.