About
Hello! Thanks for visiting my blog. What’s it all about? Well, I am a mathematician in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds and my aim is to cover anything mathematical that is of interest (to me but hopefully to you as well). I’m interested in mathematical thinking – hence the title of my book: How to Think Like a Mathematician.
I’m not going to post my lecture notes here or discuss the finer points of some arcane research topic. Instead I will focus on material that is suitable for a general mathematics audience and perhaps one or two posts for the benefit of my students.
Already you can see the variety. Posts so far include a giveaway of one of my booklets, an alert as to what is going on (maths history on the radio) and a video talk by Robert Lang on origami and mathematics. Future posts include a look at how mathematics is behind Auto-tune (the device for making singers sing in tune), exam horrors and dead Greek mathematicians!
I’m happy to hear from readers so please leave a comment or email me: k.houston@leeds.ac.uk.
Thanks,
Kevin
How to think like a mathematician is brilliant
you MUST write more books about mathematics and mathematical thinking .
Thanks Akram,
I’m working on it! More news in the coming months.
Hi Kevin,
Hope you are doing well,
Good work on Tau, but Pi value is not wrong nor Pi is wrong.
The value used for any calculation are changed.
ie. τ = 2 π
That’s it.
No harm done yet.
Doing well, thanks. Dodging the flak!
In the video I did say that pi value isn’t wrong and of course “pi is wrong” is just shorthand for “pi is the wrong constant to associate to a circle”. Not such a snappy title obviously.
Anyhow, thanks for the comment!