Cops and Drunken Robbers on MathOverflow
For the last few days, I've been hooked by a simple cops-and-robbers problem which has little to do with my thesis research. A cop and a robber occupy some two vertices of a graph. For reasons left to...
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Exponential growth in Katamari Damacy
This is a (mostly rewritten) version of a post which originally appeared in 2007.One of my favourite video games of all time is the inexplicable Katamari Damacy. Its quirky premise involves, as...
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Colonialism and the Four Colour Theorem
Africa ca. 1898 The Four Colour Theorem is probably the most famous result in topological graph theory. First conjectured in 1852, it remained unsettled until 1980s, when it became the first major...
View ArticleWhy does LaTeX clear \@title during \maketitle?
Ever wonder why LaTeX doesn't provide a way for printing the title and author once maketitle has been issued? I did. So I asked a question on the TeX StackExchange and received an interesting...
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How to Catch Legendary Pokemon
I finally achieved one of my childhood goals in a discrete math seminar last spring: I gave a serious academic talk about Pokémon. Believe it or not, every trainer who tries to catch 'em all is faced...
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