Maths Club IISER Pune

Greetings all!

We, the Math Club, would like to invite all of you to participate in Axiom's Choice - Midnight Treasure Hunt, as a part of Karavaan '18.

It will begin at 11 pm on 3rd November 2018 at the Lecture hall complex. Register in teams of two, three or four(not any more), at the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/QqFidxasE0xYpFUB3 There will be no registration fee for the event.

Come, display the prowess of your grey cells and stand a chance to win a cash prize of ₹3000!

The poster of the event is attached to this email.

Queries: [email protected] [email protected]

"By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality."

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician | Quanta Magazine By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality.

"In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs" The mathematicians Günter Ziegler and Martin Aigner have spent the past 20 years collecting some of the most beautiful proofs in mathematics.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gunter-ziegler-and-martin-aigner-seek-gods-perfect-math-proofs-20180319

Günter Ziegler and Martin Aigner Seek God’s Perfect Math Proofs | Quanta Magazine The mathematicians Günter Ziegler and Martin Aigner have spent the past 20 years collecting some of the most beautiful proofs in mathematics.

The Abel Prize for 2018 has been awarded to Robert P. Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.”

http://www.abelprize.no/nyheter/vis.html?tid=73025

News: Robert P. Langlands receives the Abel Prize

π day celebrations and 'MATH-ZINE' (Maths club magazine) inauguration

The 2018 Wolf Prize for Mathematics has been awarded to Alexander Beilinson and Vladimir Drinfeld, both of the University of Chicago, "for their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and mathematical physics"

אלכסנדר ביילינסון פרס קרן וולף לשנת 2018 בתחום המתמטיקה יוענק לפרופ& 39 אלכסנדר ביילינסון וולדימיר דרינפלד שניהם מאוניברסיטת שיקגו על עבודתם פורצת הדרך בגיא

Things great minds say.

From the archives: In 1952, Alan Turing, a British mathematician best known for his work on code-breaking and artificial intelligence, published a visionary paper on the mathematics of regularly repeating patterns in nature. Was Turing right about the mechanism behind tiger stripes?

Biologists Home in on Turing Patterns | Quanta Magazine New research has prompted a resurgence of interest in the patterning mechanisms Alan Turing proposed 60 years ago.

Once the great mathematician Waclaw Sierpinski had to move to a new place for some reason. His wife didn't trust him very much, so when they stood down on the street with all their things, she said:
- Now, you stand here and watch our ten trunks, while I go and get a taxi.
She left and left him there, eyes somewhat glazed and humming absent. Some minutes later she returned, presumably having called for a taxi. Says Mr. Sierpinski (possibly with a glint in his eye):
- I thought you said there were ten trunks, but I've only counted to nine.
- No, they're TEN!
- No, count them: 0, 1, 2, ...

Like most Frenchmen of his day, Henri Poincare (1854-1912) was in the habit of buying bread once per day from his local baker. The bread was supposed to weigh 1 kilo, but after a year of recordkeeping, Poincare determined a nice normal distribution for the weights that had mean 950 grams.

He called the police and they told the baker to behave himself. One year later Poincare reported again to the police, complaining that the baker had not reformed. The police confronted the baker and he said, "How could Poincare have known that we always gave him the largest loaf?"

Poincare then showed the police his records for the year, which again showed a bell-shaped curve with the minimum at 950 grams but truncated on the left side!

A friend of mine(Steven Krantz), Harold Parks (1949- ), was studying for his French language exam as part of the PhD program at Princeton. Parks did not know any French at all, so he decided to learn mathematical French by reading a French math book.

He selected a particular tome that happened to begin every proof and every discussion with the phrase ''Nous sommes ...." He also had the world's worst French/English dictionary.

He came to me one day and queried, "Why does every proof in this book begin with the phrase 'We beasts of burden... '?"

- Mathematical Apocrypha Redux

It used to bother Littlewood a good deal that he seemed to dream at night of solutions to the problems he was working on. But he could never remember the details in the morning. Littlewood found this situation to be more and more aggravating, and he resolved to address this predicament; he put a notebook and a pencil by his bedside.

That night, he had a particularly lucid dream in which all the pieces of the solution of his problem were plainly laid out and explained. When the dream occurred, he forced himself to wake up and he wrote down all his thoughts at the moment he was dreaming them. Then he went blissfully back to sleep.

In the morning, he was excited to read what had been recorded, confident that he would now be able to write an important new paper.
What he read on his tablet was, "Higamus, bigamus, men are polygamous. Hogamus, Bogamus, wives are monogamous ".

Source: Mathematical Apocrypha