tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43374885544669774392011-08-01T19:18:43.977+01:00A selection of thoughts on Maths, Computers and the Universe in generalJebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-83861470982328925132007-05-16T21:00:00.000+01:002007-05-16T23:26:13.492+01:00

So, I saw this interesting article on Digg, about a mathematical problem known often as the three hats problem. Let me set it up for you:Three people are in some competition run by some maniacal billionaire. If they "win" they get £3,000,000 between them, but if they lose, they leave with nothing (or get thrown to the sharks with lasers on their heads, whatever floats your boat).The rules of

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Hello to anyone that reads this (Ok, so that's going to be my mum and a few members of the Warwick Mathematics Society), I wanted to (finally) update everyone with what's been going on, and why there have been like... no posts here of late :)Basically, the Sunday before last (22nd Apr), I was cooking a risotto with Emma (my girlfriend) and managed to miss the onion and cut straight into my finger

Jebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-10682285350590350762007-04-16T14:23:00.000+01:002007-04-18T02:39:51.842+01:00

Hey all, this is a bit of an odd post for this blog, but what the hey, I made a cover of Biffy Clyro's Wave Upon Wave Upon Wave after having seen them twice over the weekend :D I'll put some reviews of the gigs up here in due course, but for the time being, enjoy(?) the cover!If you want to get a good version of the song (the original!) then the album you need is Biffy Clyro's "Infinity Land":

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This is the first of my book reviews, aimed at current undergraduate mathematicians, especially those at Warwick University.For my first review, I will be looking at one of the recommended books (nb. link only works for Warwick Mathematicians) for Warwick's 1st year Analysis I & II course - Numbers and Functions: Steps to Analysis by R. P. Burn.This book covers all areas of basic analysis and

Jebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-31001285303940861102007-04-10T16:14:00.000+01:002007-04-13T19:03:01.445+01:00

Right, I just saw this posted on the Wii news channel, and just had to pop it up here. This one isn't from the world of Maths or Computers as normal (although it did come from a Wii...).The lineup for the UK portion of the Live Earth concert has just been announced, and what a lineup it is - Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bloc Party, Razorlight... Well that's about it for my

Jebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-14742149716423288262007-04-06T14:44:00.000+01:002007-05-02T12:33:51.712+01:00

Just a very quick post to wish anyone that bothers reading this a happy easter, and to tell anyone that cares that I'm back in Reading this weekend, so I'll try to organise Easter drinks at Bob's or something :)This also seems like a great time to thank WolverineX02, who made the for blogger greasemonkey script, and as such I will link to the script and his homepage :)Jamie

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I have been mentioning Julia Sets in my essay updates a lot, and yet I still have not really explained what they are in great detail, or given you any examples. This post aims to explain Julia Sets and some related results in a manner which is graspable by a first year mathematician or so. The prerequisite knowledge really for a basic understanding is Complex Numbers and Functions.To find a

Jebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-83596013837506854242007-04-02T16:03:00.000+01:002007-04-02T16:43:18.575+01:00

Right, I'm now at the point in my essay that I need to explore a theorem known as "Böttcher's Theorem." What Böttcher's Theorem states is that given a function of the form with and , then there exists a local holomorphic change of coordinate with which conjugates to through a neighbourhood of . Furthermore, is unique up to multiplication by a root of unity.So, what does this mean?

Jebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-58787962565447839552007-03-31T19:43:00.000+01:002007-04-18T02:44:11.655+01:00

So, I've been programming on and off since I was pretty young, starting with the classic10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"20 GOTO 10on my dad's old Commodore 64 when I was little. I advanced slowly and rather haphazardly, picking up bits of BASIC, VB, Java, SPLUS, C++, Prolog, MATLAB blah de blah blah. The main problem that I had was that that I only ever programmed at random, and never had any real

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So, this is the first of my essay updates, aimed towards mathematics students. It is partly a selfish plan, I have to admit, as it will allow me to keep myself focussed on how I want the essay to progress.The outline of this essay is the study of external rays of Julia Sets of polynomial maps, and then later to extend this on to the Mandelbrot Set. An external ray is, in laymen's terms, the

Jebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105399542771198198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4337488554466977439.post-72461550336557256322007-03-25T15:03:00.000+01:002007-04-18T02:44:30.915+01:00

So, I’m going to give a brief overview of the OpenOffice software – a free open source office suite for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. This review is aimed at University students. I first used Open Office in the Linux room of the maths department of my university in my first year, and at the time, although it was adequate for reading and editing Word docs, I found it was underpowered compared to

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