Robert Low

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This is a fully visually evident proof of the fact that the diagonal of a regular unit pentagon is the golden ratio. arxiv.org/abs/2610.18903

I wrote up that thread on the new paper on Rosalind Franklin as a Substack post. matthewcobb2.substack.com/p/how-our-vi...

Obviously Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ was originally written for two cymbalons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCr5...

"I don't fucking think so"

SISTINE CHAPEL (Anagrammed Lines) Rome. Along a gold Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo paints a God's lore. On the solar ceiling: gospel, Adam, theological promise, and angels.

Italian, Jesuit mathematician, Giovanno Girolamo Saccheri, who discovered non-Euclidian geometry and didn't realise it, was born 5 September 1667 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/t...

TurtleStitch Discovery Day @ Warwick 22nd September, 10:00-15:00 (drop in) Explore #TurtleStitch, where coding meets digital embroidery! A drop-in day with links to Computing, Maths, Art & Design, and cross‑curricular projects. Register: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch #WMGOutreach #TurtleStitch

Applications for Warwick Mathematics Institute's prestigious Zeeman Lectureships for Early Career Researchers are now open. Two positions are available, so if you know of a fantastic ECR, please encourage them to apply! @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social #MathSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Very nice visualization of what conic section a parabola is.

This is a pleasing factoid: the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is the same size and weight as a T-Rex! Countdown: 15 days to launch! 🚀 AUG 30, 2026 11:26 UTC ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...

#bloomscrolling

Having fun with the colander approach to eclipse watching today in #Coventry with @robjlow.bsky.social #eclipse #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse

When visiting family in Scotland in March, we spotted this door sign on Aberdeen to Inverness train: "Stay Out: On-Board Whisky Distillery". 😁 Thanks #Scotrail for the unexpected entertainment! Apparently there are other variants across their network. #Scotland #TrainTravel @robjlow.bsky.social

Great thread!

If, like me, you saw the algebraic and couldn't tell whether or not is was a joke, then, like me, you'll get a lot out of this thread. A great job by @gro-tsen.bsky.social !

Found some juicy Gray-Scott parameter values! Full Video: youtu.be/LjSXMawYiR8 #mathsky

Gray-Scott Reaction-Diffusion here I come! #mathsky

Can’t help thinking this one has bindun

Teaching Fellow in Latin Language and Literature (111767-0626) - University of Warwick warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

In case anyone may find this of interest: an introduction to Classical Greek language.I’ve run this a few times before (and follow up courses as well). I think it’s gone down quite well. language-centre.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/facu...

God fucking damn it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Borromean carabiners and Borromean paper clips.

There are many worthier subejcts, but I'm going to nominate Cardell "Scum" Goodman (1649?-1699), whose deplorable career reads like half a dozen Blackadder episodes rolled into one.

What code do you use for the emptyset in LaTeX? 1️⃣ \emptyset 2️⃣ \varnothing 3️⃣ \{\} 📊 Show results

Yesterday I attended #WomenInTech at No.10 Downing Street. Opened by Liz Kendall, it was inspiring to be among so many women committed to meaningful change. I shared WMG #WorkExperience attracting diverse talent into eng & tech. A brilliant & energising event. #WMGoutreach @wmgwarwick.bsky.social

Today’s poem is called ‘Requiem for Whoever’. It’s one of my more tender, thoughtful poems, as I attempt to gain a small share of the lucrative funeral poetry market.

I'm not sure how I feel about commercial sponsorship of Artemis missions, but I guess Tunnocks tea-cakes is ok.

A quick blog post commenting on the claim by Alex Oliver and Tim Smiley to have shown that the “easy” direction of Church's Thesis is wrong. I'm not persuaded -- and neither should you be! www.logicmatters.net/2026/04/06/p... #philsky #mathsky

Given a Riemannian manifold that is topologically a sphere, we can talk about "geodesics"—paths as close to straight as possible on the surface. On a true sphere, geodesics are great circles, but on topological spheres, the geodesics may roam around the sphere forever without closing up. 1/7

Here are a couple of gems from Archimedes's work, _On Spirals_. Begin with a spiral (known today as an "Archimedean spiral"). Using today's notation, the spiral is given by r = aθ in polar coordinates for some a. Consider one turn of the spiral from the origin O to where it hits the x-axis 1/3