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Category Archives: books
Paul Halmos and Tom Blyth
Tom Blyth, a long-term member of the Mathematics department in St Andrews, died in May this year at the age of 85. Last week, I spotted the Head of Department talking to a woman carrying a big heavy bag. We … Continue reading
Dominic Welsh memorial service
To Oxford last Saturday for the memorial service for Dominic Welsh. I wrote about Dominic here; the picture was taken at Geoff Whittle’s conference in Wellington in December 2015, if my memory serves. Many people’s lives were touched by Dominic, … Continue reading
Posted in books, events
Tagged coincidences, computational complexity, Dominic Welsh, matroids, percolation
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Graphs and groups, designs and dynamics
Four and a half year ago there was a conference and summer school on the four topics of the title (part of the G2 series of conferences, whose hiistory you can read here) at the Three Gorges Mathematics Center in … Continue reading
Posted in books, events, publishing
Tagged Cambridge University Press, designs, dynamics, graphs, groups, Rosemary Bailey, Yaokun Wu, Yichang
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Programming and typesetting
Is computer typesetting a kind of programming? One of the pioneers, Donald Knuth, clearly thought so. In The TeXBook, he gives TeX code for computing and typesetting the first thirty primes; apart from anything else, this demonstrates that TeX has … Continue reading
Donald Keedwell
News came yesterday that Donald Keedwell has died. Donald Keedwell was the author (with J. Dénes) of a classic, Latin Squares and their Applications, first published in 1974 with a foreword by Paul Erdős, and still the best source of … Continue reading
Infinite permutation groups
A “new” publication by Peter Neumann has just appeared on the arXiv: the notes of a 48-lecture course he gave in Oxford in the academic year 1988–89 on infinite permutation groups, compiled and edited by David Craven, Dugald Macpherson and … Continue reading
Real-world Turing machines?
To the LMS meeting in London last night, for two talks with a lot in common. The meeting was in Mary Ward Hall in Tavistock Place. Far from an ideal venue; the acoustics were really bad. So it was difficult … Continue reading
George F. Simmons
Browsing a back issue of the BSHM bulletin, I found a review of the book Calculus Gems by George F. Simmons, from which I learned that he died in 2019 at the age of 94. I never met Simmons, and … Continue reading
Simon Norton
Simon Norton died last week. I got the news yesterday. I have written about Simon here before, after reading Alexander Masters’ biography. I have no intention of rehearsing Simon’s eccentricities. But he had an extraordinary talent and insight into mathematics, … Continue reading
Posted in books, mathematics and ...
Tagged Alexander Masters, how mathematicians think, Monster, Simon Norton
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Books
I realised yesterday that, although I had moved the web pages of books I had written to my St Andrews website when I came here, I had neither updated them nor put links to them. I have done the easier … Continue reading
Posted in books, the Web
Tagged algebra, combinatorics, logic, permutation groups, set theory
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