most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-23T18:12:19Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/1525 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/7329/math-journal-for-high-school-students/7487#7487 balazs komuves 2009-12-01T19:33:47Z 2009-12-01T19:33:47Z

<p>There is a Hungarian mathematics (and physics) journal for high-school students (KöMaL); I think it's mostly in Hungarian, but there are some <a href="http://www.komal.hu/cikkek/cikkekrol.e.shtml" rel="nofollow">English articles</a> on their homepage, and there are some special issues in English. They also have running competitions, which are definitely available in English (for the last 40 years or so!). There is an archive of old issues, which seems to contain English material as well, but unfortunately it is not working at the moment...</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/5450/cocktail-party-math/5581#5581 balazs komuves 2009-11-14T21:49:06Z 2009-11-14T21:49:06Z

<p>When people are asking for practical applications (which they inevitably do), I always explain how number theory (that's prime numbers for the layperson) was at some time studied by some people because it couldn't have any application ever (so it's pure and artistic), but now is the basis for cryptography, which is for example behind the banking system; implying that there can be a delay of 50-100 years between a mathematical discovery and a potential everyday application. I also mention that there are often immediate applications inside mathematics, so it's not totally useless :).</p> <p>Topology has some interesting stuff too, as already mentioned.</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3044/tools-for-collaborative-paper-writing/5391#5391 balazs komuves 2009-11-13T16:48:46Z 2009-11-13T16:48:46Z

<p>A (distributed) version control system which has a solid theoretical background, unlike most others, is <a href="http://darcs.net" rel="nofollow">darcs</a> (originally written by a physicist). Unfortunately it does not have a nice user interface yet, so it may be not easy to "force" your coauthors to use it... </p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2851/algorithmic-combinatorics-resources/4294#4294 balazs komuves 2009-11-05T20:02:39Z 2009-11-05T20:02:39Z

<p><a href="http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/knuth/" rel="nofollow">Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming, volume 4 (fascicles).</a> It is really comprehensive (but the algorithm descriptions are not easy to read). </p> <p>Also you may be interested in the theory of combinatorial species (look it up on wikipedia; this system does not allow me to include more than 1 hyperlinks, which I find pretty stupid to be honest...).</p>