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  • 22 Jan 2025
    Richard Montgomery

    The N-body problem is alive and well!

    Despite having been alive for more than three centuries the classical N-body problem remainsalive and well! In this book I demonstrate its vibrancy by exploring four open questions within the problem. The book was born during the beginning of the pandemic when Marcelo Disconzi asked me to give aZoom colloquium talk at Vanderbilt University, which […]

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  • 29 Oct 2024
    Robert T. Curtis

    The Art of Working with the Mathieu group M24

    1  Background In 1873 the French mathematician Emil Mathieu published a paper in which he ’glued’ together copies of the projective special linear group L2(23) acting on the 24-point projective line P1(23) to produce a new group with remarkable properties. Although enormous in comparison to L2(23), the new group was a tiny subgroup of A24, […]

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  • 14 Oct 2024
    Michel L. Racine, Holger P. Petersson, Skip Garibaldi

    Albert algebras: the last frontier of Jordan systems

    We are the kind of people who are always interested in the strongest example of something, the paragon.  When we eat Swiss cheese (Emmental), we want our senses to tell us that; we shouldn’t have any doubts that maybe we are eating cheddar.   This book takes the same approach to Jordan systems in mathematics. […]

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  • 5 Dec 2022
    Stephen Senn

    The mean side of the force : How regression to the mean can fool us

    Regression to the mean is a powerful and common source of bias in interpreting data. Once understood, its potential to mislead is obvious. Yet many scientists are regularly fooled by it. In this blog I shall try explain it.

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  • 24 May 2022
    Richard Ansorge

    Programming in Parallel with CUDA

    My new book “Programming in Parallel with CUDA – A Practical Guide” was born out of the excitement I feel about computing with GPUs.  I have always had passion for science and computer programming.  I wrote my first program in 1964 for the Cambridge EDSAC II computer using a Fortran like programming language. Since then, […]

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  • 11 May 2022
    Volker Michel

    Geomathematics

    For every tourist in Cambridge, there are some must-see spots like King’s College chapel, the Mathematical Bridge at Queens‘ College, and, certainly, the apple tree at Trinity College.

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  • 10 Jan 2022
    Munier Hossain

    Medicine and statistics- not Montagues and Capulets

    In his 1597 play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare narrates the tragic story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The two young persons are in love, but their families are engaged in a blood feud. The consequences were tragic. The imposition of statistics in medicine evokes similarly strong emotions. The animosity may not be as […]

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  • 29 Oct 2021
    Shrawan Kumar

    Author Shrawan Kumar’s Mathematical Journey

    'Conformal Blocks, Generalized Theta Functions and the Verlinde Formula' author Shrawan Kumar details his mathematical career and what he values in mathematical literature.

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