Wall Cops and Robbers
My Masters student Fionn Mc Inerney and I introduced a new variant of the game of Cops and Robbers, where the cop has the ability to build “walls” on vertices. In Wall Cops and Robbers, there are two players: a cop and a robber. The game starts with the cop building a “wall” on a vertex which blocks off…
Mathematicians and the arts
Jason Brown is a both a mathematician and a blues guitarist. I introduced him at a public lecture at Ryerson University as “…the hardest working man in mathematical music” (with all due respect to James Brown!). Brown wrote a popular mathematics book Our Days are Numbered, which featured his work on the prevalence and influence of mathematics…
Mathematicians are the new vampires: the sequel
A Brilliant Young Mind is an upcoming movie with Asa Butterfield (aka Ender in Ender’s Game) which is about a teenage autistic mathematics prodigy named Nathan. I saw this movie when it was called X+Y at the Toronto International Film Festival last September. The title was fine to me, but likely not so much to…
Zombies vs Mathematicians!
A horde of ravenous zombies descends on a sole survivor loose in a ravaged city, filled with deserted streets and no help in sight. The survivor happens to be a Mathematician, and so has no weapons to use other than his mind. He has, therefore, no choice but to make a run for it. Which way…