Learning mathematics from Ants

Hope you had a good week so far. If you have read my previous post, you were probably expecting this post. While visiting Edinburgh Butterfly & Insect World I have spent some time watching the ants they have there. Looking at their organized trails and how they were carrying things around, I was sure there was some...

Transform your holiday into a Maths – Camp

Recently I have posted about my holiday to Romania and what I have visited there. During that journey I have thought at different things that could have transformed it into a maths related one. I feel that every holiday could become a maths-camp if you can find the right questions and use your creativity and...

L’Hopital Rule – interesting history

Last week on Tumblr I got into an interesting conversation on L'Hopital Rule and I wanted to share with you some of the interesting facts I have found about it. First of all, this rule was one of my favorite during high school and also in the first year of university. If nothing else worked...

What can you do with a Maths Degree?

In the last couple of weeks I have been asked a lot about what exactly someone could do with a mathematics degree. I tried my best to explain how beautiful mathematics is and how rewarding it is to have a degree in maths, but then I thought that it would be a great idea to...

How you behave when you don’t know?

Last week I have shared on Facebook an old post of mine: a quote (anonymous unfortunately) on what good mathematics really means. This is one of all time quotes on mathematics, but I was incredibly surprised by the huge number of reactions I have received and also a great number of comments and messages about...

Abel Prize and Fermat’s Last Theorem

This week was a huge mathematical week for a lot of reasons. I don't even what to mention Pi Day anymore, but on Tuesday was the Abel Prize Award and I was incredibly excited for it. Also, this year was one of those few years when I totally know what the winner has been doing...

It’s Pi Weekend

This weekend will be full of Pi all over. For those of you that don't know I have organized another event on Facebook: Pi Love, where I invite people to share their love of this day in any way they like. Today I will talking about some historically interesting facts about Pi and then tomorrow will...

Doing Research on a Subject

I thought that this would be a good way to finish the event Modern Mathematics. Thank you everyone who participated and helped me find out more about the topics and improve my mathematical knowledge. I have to confess that most of the things were new to me and it was very interesting to find out...

Mathematicians of January

January brought nice surprises to me. I had no idea that two of my favorite mathematicians are born in January and also the birthdays are so close to each other in term of days, obviously not years. Moreover, I have found another interesting mathematician (new to me) which was also born in January. So I...

Abstract Maths

These days someone shared an interesting article with me on Facebook (When Even Mathematicians Don't Understand the Math) and I was impressed and it made me consider a lot of things. It is an article from 2004, but still I consider it to be even more true now than then. I have a question for...