Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

@christianp I'm not sure of the precise meaning, but one cannot fail to notice that it is an anagram of "Oil Suit Technocrat," which is probably a significant clue.

4. THE BEANFEAST PUZZLE. A number of men went out together on a bean-feast. There were four parties invited--namely, 25 cobblers, 20 tailors, 18 hatters, and 12 glovers. They spent altogether £6, 13s. It was found that five cobblers spent as much as four tailors; that twelve tailors spent as much as nine hatters; and that six hatters spent as much as eight glovers. The puzzle is to find out how much each of the four parties spent.

(The actual question asked isn't all that relevant)

The thing with tensors is that they only make sense as a term in the context where they're used (diffgeo), and if you try to explain them in terms of vector analysis, the point gets quickly lost.

Here's an amusing if minor repeated typo in the literature: "appiled superconductivity", https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Appiled+Superconductivity%22 (177 hits). I think the source is IEEE, which spells Trans. on Applied Superconductivity correctly on its site but misspells it repeatedly in the doi database. So if you get your citations from doi metadata, you will get this error.

You can see the metadata for a doi by doing curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" on the url for the doi. Try e.g. 10.1109/TASC.2005.849553

1. Click link
2. It's medium.com
3. Close tab

Corker of a line from https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic01.html

“And the story of computation has been about the evolution of this very novel and peculiar form of human expression we call code. I suspect being a programmer in the 21st century must be like what being a royal scribe was like in Ancient Egypt in 3200 BCE. There’s this new modality of communication that most of the population is unaware of, yet it’s existence simultaneously enables commerce, culture and civilization to flourish.”

Origami Fibonacci torus and knotted torus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdnvxN4UUfs

I have the impression that the Fibonacci part just gives it a nice organic look (visible in much of Akio Hizume's other architecture at http://www.starcage.org/englishindex.html) but what interests me is the way it rotates smoothly. That's not something unfolded paper can do, because the inner parts of a torus have negative curvature, the outer parts are positive, and unfolded paper can't change curvature.

@jsiehler Website:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/MJ_Wiki.py

Specific page:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/MJ_Wiki.py?HowToRegister

Questions invited ... answers are either on the website and I can point you to them, or not on the site and need to be added.

And we're off!

Registration is open for the MathsJam weekend & the mass mailing for those on the mailing lists is underway. Cue vast numbers of "Out Of Office" and "User Not Found" emails.

If you're expecting an email & don't get one in the next couple of hours, let me know.

Gergonne's Card Trick, Positional Notation, and Radix Sort
Article by Ethan D. Bolker
In collections: Easily explained, Fun maths facts
Gergonne's three pile card trick has been a favorite of mathematicians for nearly two centuries. This new exposition uses the radix sorting algorithm well known to computer scientists to explain why the trick works, and to explore generalizations. The presentation...
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.4169/002557010X479983
PDF: https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/Bolker-MMz-201053228.pdf
Entry: https://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/GergonnesCardTrickPositionalNotationandRadixSort