You may have noticed we are running a series of short films on the maths behind popular games (card, board, digital, nothing is off limits). So we want contributors for the following games plus any ideas you have of your own.
Poker, Blackjack, Roulette, Chess, Go, Bridge, Monopoly, Tsuro, Carcasonne, Cathedral, Minecraft, Catan, Ticket to Ride, Saboteur, Projective Noughts and Crosses, Projective Set, Splendour, Minesweeper, Backgammon, etc.
It's the Week 1 Student Bulletin! A clip from James Maynard's Sophie Germain Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture, one of five talks celebrating Sophie's life, work and influence held at the Royal Institution on 1 April, Sophie's 250th. You can watch all five talks - our own Lukas Brantner, Ana Caraiani, Laura Monk and a Chladni figures demonstration by Dan Plane as well as James - here
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On Fox’s trapezoidal conjecture
Abstract
Fox’s trapezoidal conjecture, proposed in 1962, states that the absolute values of the coefficients of the Alexander polynomial of an alternating knot form a trapezoidal sequence: they strictly increase, possibly plateau, and then strictly decrease. In this talk, I will discuss recent progress on the conjecture, based on joint work with András Juhász and Tamás Kálmán. In particular, we prove the conjecture for diagrammatic plumbings of special alternating links and obtain partial results for alternating three-braid closures
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