Another math weekend in Gaborone

Another math training for secondary school students in Gaborone Three more weeks and another training session will be offered for secondary school students who are talented in mathematics. On 20-21 May, invited students are going to have a new chance to listen to lectures on different topics, then to solve some quizzes. As previously held […]

The hangman is being hanged

When the hangman is being hanged In my earlier posts I wrote about equations which play a central role in mathematical research and applications. Roughly speaking, an equation is of the form where are given functions defined on some set, and the letters represent the „unknowns” — the quantities which we don’t know, which are […]

The 2 million dollars problem

The 2 million dollars math problem Do you think that someone would pay US dollars for the solution of a math problem? Yes, it happened in the history of mathematics that an award of this amount was offered for the solution of the following, apparently simple problem. Prove that there are no positive integers with […]