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How to explain mathematical concepts in a way that students can understand

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Latest posts on my Blogger blog 29/4/25 (mostly on Cauchy-Schwarz)

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Latest posts on my Blogger blog 5/2/25 (Level 1 Analysis)

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A rule of thumb for when to use the Ratio Test

My latest post on my Blogger blog is about when you should use the Ratio Test (for sequences and/or series) and, perhaps more importantly, when you should definitely NOT use the Ratio Test. I describe this briefly as a rule Continue reading

Latest posts on my Blogger blog 6/4/24 (6 posts on the Hahn-Banach extension theorem)

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Latest posts on my Blogger blog 16/3/24 (Weierstrass M-test and Taylor’s Theorem, 2-function version)

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Optional additional resources for first-year analysis

I ve recently finished teaching 5 weeks of Analysis as part of our new first-year Core Mathematics module. I ve made some additional resources available to them on a Moodle page. I expect to add further resources in due course! But here Continue reading

Further Topics in Analysis optional additional resources

My Level 4 analysis module has been through various codes and titles. Currently it is MATH4047 Further Topics in Analysis (FTA for short). I have made some optional additional resources available to them via a Moodle page. Here is a Continue reading

Latest posts on my Blogger blog 11/3/24

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8×8 Othello “solved”

This is amazing! I never thought I d see this without some major breakthrough in computational power. It looks like, as long suspected, 8 8 Othello is a draw with perfect play. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19387#:~:text=The%20challenge%20of%20solving%20Othello,players%20lead%20to%20a%20draw See https://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/plp/pmzjff/Othello/6x6sol.html and…

Latest posts on my Blogger blog 18/2/24

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Measure and Integration 2006-7-8 update

Thanks to the local team at the University of Nottingham for helping me to track down my missing Measure and Integration mp3 files. I m pleased to say that they were all safely backed up. I am now hosting the mp3 Continue reading

Screencast and audio links from this blog.

Hi everyone, An old server was recently decommissioned here at Nottingham (I was warned!)I thought that I had safely transferred all of my screencasts and podcasts to somewhere sensible, and to some extent that is true. What I had forgotten Continue reading

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Nottingham Symphony Orchestra Concert 9th March 2024 (OT)

My wife Uta and I both play violin in the Nottingham Symphony Orchestra. Our next concert, An evening of European Classics, will be on 9th March 2024, in the (Nottingham) Albert Hall. Here is our flyer (as screenshots and, further Continue reading

Piazza “less than” bug?

There appears to be a bug in (or a feature of) the Piazza mobile app (on android at least) that causes posts to be truncated at any strict less than sign inside maths. It looks fine on a desktop web Continue reading

Latest posts on my Blogger blog 26/12/23

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