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It amazes me that people think of 'do-gooder' as an insult, that always blows my mind -- Kevin Bacon
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I don't know if @RoyalMail will see this, or if they will response but I just got a:
"Package was not available when we called."
You never called.
We were in
We were watching the front door
You never called.
You take our money, and then lie.
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
16 Oct 2025
A Mastodon instance for people who love maths.
It is operated voluntarily by Christian Lawson-Perfect and @ColinTheMathmo.
Go @joinmastodon!
mathstodon.xyz/about
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
8 Apr 2025
Some pretty odd responses to this!
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
23 Mar 2025
Y ahora a movilizar! Muchas gracias @creamat @CarmeVicens @InnovacioE @PCT_Mates_CYL y #CENTMAT de @EDUN_IB @ljrguezmuniz y @molinaayuso @AndaluciaJunta por acudir y contribuir a la jornada de discusión. Esperemos poder seguir trabajando!
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
23 Mar 2025
Gracias @jamestanton y @ColinTheMathmo por la demostración experimental, en un maravilloso evento de cierre, del primer principio de la matemática: tras una pregunta lo suficientemente sencilla se encuentra el placer y el descubrimiento de una sucesión infinita.
#EduCaixaMAPS
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
23 Mar 2025
And @DavidKButlerUoA ! Here's your B&W tiling exhibit at @MMACA_cat in Barcelona -- with @ColinTheMathmo and @magiaymates and Guido R.
Wowza!
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
22 Mar 2025
Such a joy and honor to be with such dedicated ambassadors of joyous math!
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Un dia fantàstic de formació de @Educaixa sobre el gaudi pel pensament matemàtic amb @jamestanton i @ColinTheMathmo i una rodona molt interessant sobre els resultats de Exploding Dots amb @ljrguezmuniz @eulaliatramuns i @4rn4u
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Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci…
Dr Mark Carrigan is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester.
Are any of my followers on BlueSky?
Will you post this there?
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This is a moment to remind people that Twitter can read your so-called "Private Messages". PMs with certain links in them are being blocked.
Elon and friends have access to your DMs.
Remember that.
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
4 Jan 2025
Creatures like Musk have no principles. They have only insatiable greed.
4 Jan 2025
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK ADMITS SECRET MASS CENSORSHIP OF HIS CRITICS ON TWITTER
Everything he said about what he planned to do with Twitter was a lie. No MAGA can possibly stand by him after this.
He betrayed the one principle he said he had. newrepublic.com/post/189770/…
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
4 Jan 2025
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK ADMITS SECRET MASS CENSORSHIP OF HIS CRITICS ON TWITTER
Everything he said about what he planned to do with Twitter was a lie. No MAGA can possibly stand by him after this.
He betrayed the one principle he said he had. newrepublic.com/post/189770/…
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HAPPY PERIHELION EVERYONE !!!
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
1 Jan 2025
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
2 Jan 2025
"The web dev of the future will be an underpaid generalist who pokes at chatbot output until it runs without error, pokes at a copilot until it generates tests that pass with some coverage, and ships code that nobody understands and can’t be fixed if something goes wrong."
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
1 Jan 2025
I've recently been talking a bit about how difficult it is to carefully check even well-written mathematics. I want to try to explain something about this by telling the story of some errors in the literature that (in part) led to the two papers below. 1/n
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
1 Jan 2025
Good thread. If you follow me (because of maths) and not @littmath,
1/ read the thread, and
2/ give serious thought to following him.
1 Jan 2025
I've recently been talking a bit about how difficult it is to carefully check even well-written mathematics. I want to try to explain something about this by telling the story of some errors in the literature that (in part) led to the two papers below. 1/n
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Colin Wright (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz) retweeted
1 Jan 2025
Experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud
arxiv.org/abs/2409.03680
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I don't know what they've done, but it's nearly impossible to paste things into the edit window here ... it gets completely screwed.
So I *was* going to post a link to the next video in the #G4G15 series, but it's a nightmare.
The announcement is here:
mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMath…
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Is there a simple way to see that for a non-constant polynomial with coefficients in R that the complex roots come in conjugate pairs?
In other words, if p(z)=0 the p(w)=0, where w is the complex conjugate of z.
Ideas?
How accessible can this be for secondary school students?
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