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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Four colour theorem
A fascinating paper by Louis Kauffman establishes the equivalence of the four-colour theorem (the assertion that any planar graph can have its vertices coloured with one of four colours, such that neighbouring vertices have different colours) to the following seemingly unrelated combinatorial … Continue reading
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Comfortably squarefree numbers
Usually, it is very difficult to find a reasonably naturally-defined sequence which is not present on the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. The OEIS contains everything from the ubiquitous Bernoulli numbers and the fascinating Golomb self-referential sequence, to such utterly pointless trivialities as A171056 (the … Continue reading
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Stella octangula
In this rather popular video, Vi Hart experiments with the patterns that can be formed by connecting the vertices of a regular polygon with straight lines of equal length. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJzrmS9UfY] In addition to the obvious number-theoretic interpretation, there is a nice … Continue reading
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Cipher 42: Sudoku II
This can be regarded as a sequel to cipher 21. One of the problems with that cipher was the fact that people could cheat by using an online Sudoku solver; I don’t believe that this suffers from the same vulnerability. … Continue reading
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A more aperiodic monotile
This article can be regarded as a sequel to my 5 × 5 monotile. Since its announcement, several variants have been discovered. In particular, towards the end of this article we shall present a three-dimensional monotile with the following properties: Nonperiodic by … Continue reading
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Block cellular automata
On an infinite square lattice, the B36/S125 cellular automaton proceeds similarly to Conway’s Game of Life (B3/S23), but with different birth and survival conditions. Specifically, a dead cell becomes live if surrounded by 3 or 6 live neighbours, and a … Continue reading
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New aperiodic monotile
In three dimensions, an aperiodic monotile is a solid capable of tiling space, but not in such a way that admits translational symmetry. The question of existence of aperiodic monotiles stems from a weaker question, which formed part of Hilbert’s … Continue reading
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Gingerbread men
A few days ago, I mentioned how cp4space was being advertised at the Balliol maths camp. What I didn’t realise was that some of the EGMO veterans running sessions at the camp decided to make confectionery to celebrate the cp4space anniversary! Firstly, we … Continue reading
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A year of cp4space
I am proud to announce that Complex Projective 4-Space is celebrating its first anniversary today. This is an excellent opportunity to quantitatively summarise what has happened on cp4space in the last year: Complex Projective 4-Space has been viewed 104125 times since its … Continue reading
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Langton’s loops, sexually-transmitted viruses and architecture
What do the Sydney Opera House, the Human Papillomavirus and the following model of artificial life have in common? The history of artificial life has been a long one, and few would argue that it originated with the Hungarian-American mathematician … Continue reading
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