Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

The Bulgarian solitaire and the mathematics around it
Article by Vesselin Drensky
In collections: Easily explained, Games to play with friends, History, Puzzles
The Bulgarian solitaire is a mathematical card game played by one person. A pack of \(n\) cards is divided into several decks (or "piles"). Each move...
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00885v1
PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.00885v1
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/TheBulgariansolitaireandthemathematicsaroundit

Happy Birthday to M.C. Escher!

The paramagnetic and glass transitions in sudoku
Article by Williams, Alex and Ackland, Graeme . J.
In collection: Basically physics
We study the statistical mechanics of a model glassy system based on a familiar and popular mathematical puzzle. Sudoku puzzles provide a very rare example of a class of frustrated systems with a unique groundstate without...
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1649
PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.1649v1
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Williams2012

@PgSuper I think Ramanujan alluded to such experiences.

I wonder if some crazy mathematician ever thought of talking to a number as if it was a friend... (Because numbers are friends?)

oh, you like Mikhail Gromov? name five of his papers

Genuinely assumed this was about Prince William and really couldn't work out what the banks could possibly be doing.

#programming idea:
your examples should be part of your automated #testing !

there is nothing more irritating then eg. finding a cool rust crate and not being able to run the examples

...ok, maybe mosquitoes are worse

but other than that!!!! nothing!!!! **literally** nothing!!

Made some visuals like those from the latest Numberphile!
#oeis #math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGC5TdIiT9U

MathJax v3 has hit beta.

https://www.mathjax.org/MathJax-v3-beta/

We're looking students to work on compiler / virtual machine things:

http://www.unb.ca/research/casatlantic/prospectivestudents/omr_iot.html

also a "Research Assistant/Software developer" for the same projects.

Found a roll of receipt paper while cleaning and could finally run a ~real~ ed(1) session // @_xhr_

My new programming language has two types of variable declaration:

constant

and

constn't

big thonk

I figured it was about time to post an #introduction here. (Thanks again @christianp for inviting me!)

Hi! I'm Accio. I enjoy #math, #reading, #programming, #geocaching, and #boardgames. I am heavily considering a math-related career, so if you do math for your job, please share!

In my search to explore the lands of Mastodon, I have another account (@acciobooks).

Also, incomplete math project I did: https://mathwhiz.github.io/vectorpres/

The other day a friend shard her repsonse a tweet that was something about cis women being so different from trans women that sometimes "we" (cis women) "need a space just for us."

So I replied "I, a cis woman, can't think of ANY time I've EVER "needed a space just for us."

I want to share women's spaces with trans women, not transphobes. Transphobes make the world less safe; trans women don't."

Bash tricks by Julia Evans