Peter Rowlett @peterrowlett@mathstodon.xyz

I suddenly realised earlier that I can fill a Hex board with a random assortment of counters using the LaTeX package hexboard. I'm not sure this is useful, mind you! In fact, less sure the more I think about it...

Three journal special issues I'm aware of on university mathematics, statistics and OR teaching, learning, assessment, support, etc. during COVID:
- Restarting the new normal https://academic.oup.com/teamat/issue/40/4
- Takeaways from teaching through a global pandemic https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tmes20/53/3
- Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic https://journals.gre.ac.uk/index.php/msor/issue/view/93

I'm an editor for one, editorial board for another and ex-editorial board for the third. Are there any others?

I'm used to right-clicking on a MathJax-rendered equation and getting a menu like this, but this doesn't work here. Is that deliberate? Is it something to worry about? @christianp?

We also made an environment to run through a game, with or without numbered pieces showing the order of play. Here the envionment is hexgame or hexgamelabels and moves are \hexmove{row}{column} (the player colour alternates).

Do you know the game Hex? Do you use \(\LaTeX\)? Chris Sangwin & I wrote a package for drawing Hex boards and games called hexboard. It makes lovely diagrams like this.

Definition of mathematics given by the Guardian uni league table. What do we think? https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2017/may/16/university-guide-2018-league-table-for-mathematics
https://mathstodon.xyz/media/S_WD_3jASDnkl0QQoCg

‪Quote is from the latest BBC More or Less episode on Radio 4 (though a similar claim was made on the World Service edition of the programme). But isn't self-similarity about similarity at different scales, i.e. parts resembling the whole? Am I wrong?‬

https://mathstodon.xyz/media/nZuvH5XSxXnhxH2gNFE