Back in 1991 I attended a maths conference in Hungary. One of the other attendees was from the then disintegrating Soviet Union, and he told a story of his journey to the conference. It involved a train trip, starting somewhere in the middle of the Russian nowhere. He was waiting on the platform hoping for the […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
This month’s 12 of 12 coincided with the second day of a three-day Scout hike along the Great Ocean Walk from Blanket Bay to Cape Otway and then on to the Aire River. This is a lovely coastal walk, and I was in the company of Matthew (one of the other leaders), and six of our […] If anyone finds my voice out there, can I have it […] We were going to be moving offices just before Christmas last year. Then we were going to be moving in the middle of January. Then it was going to be before Easter. Then it was going to be sometime before the end of May. Then it was going to be May 31 and this definitely wouldn’t change. Then it was going […] The four filing cabinets are empty, and at least one set of shelves is devoid of books. There is hope for being ready in time for moving […] My brother informed me that today was the 100th anniversary of the untimely demise of William Schwenck (W. S.) Gilbert, the librettist (writer of words) in the partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan. Gilbert is the author of a large number of the random things that I quote in response to various stimuli, either as snippets of dialogue […] Some of the Scouts are working towards construction badges, and so we met up at the hall this morning to build something. I thought we might build a bridge. The Scouts, on the other hand, looked in the Fieldbook and saw the plans for a simple little chair, which took their fancy. It wasn’t long before “simple little chair” […] Several years ago a certain brand of clothing company produced a sweatshirt bearing the image of da Vinci’s famous Vitruvian Man (the perfectly proportioned symmetrical naked guy with four arms and legs enclosed within a circle and square), and the word “BALANCE”. At the time it occurred to me that it would be fun to spoof […] “Come into my parlour,” said the spider to the fly. The moving date for the great office relocation has now been set for June 9. This month’s 12 of 12 provides an excellent — and final — opportunity to record Room 714 for posterity. Fortunately I don’t have any (posterity, that is), because they would be a bit […] Recently I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the annual conference of the Mathematical Association of Tasmania. It was also the MAT’s 50th anniversary, and I think that one of the reasons I was asked was because I was an expatriate Tasmanian who had been involved with the association in my younger days (my […] |
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