March 17, 2024. In the first issue of 6IT: the mathematics of supervising children; unreliably clairvoyant demons; why the sky is blue (and why it isnβt); a Poisson process for primes; sychronizing fireflies; and quantum error correction from Penrose tilings.
βThere's no use trying, β she said. βOne can't believe impossible things.β
βI daresay you haven't had much practice,β said the Queen. βWhen I was
your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.β
β Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Inspired by one of my heroes, John Baez, Iβm planning to blog about βfindsβ in the hard sciences on a semi-regular basis. These may be papers, favourite theorems, new discoveries, or shower thoughts; Iβm hoping to be brief and nerdily enthusiastic rather than thorough and technically deep. Either way, I hope itβs fun to read. Letβs see how it goes!
Contents
1. The dust devil is in the details
