The resulting discussion there amuses at least me.

Do we have the volume for a Carnival of Research Mathematics?

When I got back from T’bilisi, just over a month ago, I had research leads that I expect will end in three different publications.

I was slated with writing one LARP report for a swedish gaming magazine, and a series of various popular mathematics articles for the local student-run mathematics magazine here.

All in all, very many things converged this June/July for me.

It has started paying off though – the gaming article is published, and yesterday I submitted the first of the T’bilisi articles to the Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures as well as to the arXiv.

I now am listed on the arXiv with three papers, out of which one is already published, one is rejected (not unjustly so), and one is just submitted for review.

Note that the name changed for the last paper. I am cheating a very little bit – August 25th, I will marry the most marvelous woman I have ever met, and will – among other reasons for the sake of academic unicity – take her last name in addition to my own.

Aaaaanyway. This is my excuse for having missed .. what is it? three carnival issues?

Enjoy.

Further on, jd2718 just posted the newest Carnival of Mathematics, as so often otherwise, I do feature.

This fortnight has a lot of goodies, among those a call for reading Grothendieck and a blogpost by Ian Stewart.

Go read.

I’m featured again – as are many other very readable bloggers. Go. Read.

Featured this time around are homological algebra, representation theory, Rubik’s cube solutions, Bernoulli processes, topology, number theory, and much much more.

First out, from the first half of our submissions, we have a grand tour of didactic topics, starting out with Michael Tang, who shows us why negative times negative is positive, with a touch of ring theory into the mix. Following that, Rebecca Newburn discusses equation solving strategies and Laurie Bluedorn takes a historical view on the age of introduction of formal arithmetic. To finish it up, jd2718 tells us about teaching complex numbers and your humble host has a manifesto of sorts about stimulating strong students.

From the financial mathematics half of our submission, Matthew Paulson analyzes payday loans.

For the third half of the submissions, we look at humor. Scott Cram gives us mathematical humor cavalcade, funky tricks with π and more funky tricks with π, including how to calculate it with frozen hotdogs. Denise brings us a corollary to the well-known theorem that all odd numbers are prime.

The fourth half of our submissions climb the dimensions ladder. Eric Kidd brings us a review of a newly released e-book in linear algebra, and Lynet discusses visualization and abstraction of higher dimensional entities.

The fifth half concerns itself with number theory, geometry, topology and algebra. We start out with Mark Dominus who discusses integer partitions and odd correspondences. Charles Daney chimes in with diophantine equations – and we use it immediately, as Foxy takes us along, finding square sums of squares in magic squares. For the geometric side, polymath has a proof of Morley’s theorem, and trust me: you do want to read the proof before you look up the theorem. Alon Levy raises the level another notch in a discussion of infinite galois theory – a part of his ongoing series on galois theory. Mark Chu-Carroll steers us over to the topology side with a discussion of homotopy – one of my own favourite subjects – and follows up with an introduction to simplicial complexes: an invaluable tool for algebraic topology. Which brings me to the last post – also from your humble host. an introduction to algebraic topology.

The next Carnival of Mathematics will be hosted by Jason Rosenhouse and the Evolution Blog. Submissions go through Alon Levy at alon_levy1 (at) yahoo.com, through the submission tool or could even be forwarded by me – reachable at mikael (at) johanssons.org

The third carnival of mathematics is to be hosted by yours truly on the International Women’s Day (maybe we can get a theme going? Women in mathematics, anyone?). Submissions to me directly or over the submission form.

Go there. Read. There’s a LOT of good blog posts there.