Doomed to failure

Yesterday I bought a collection of George Orwell’s writing, Shooting an Elephant. In the first essay, Why I Write, Orwell says, 
I have not written a novel for seven years, but I hope to write another fairly soon. It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some [...]

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Final proofs

I have finished reading the proofs of How to Think Like a Mathematician, packaged them up and sent them on to the publisher. Hooray! Any problems were minor; the biggest problem was that some of the diagrams were incorrect. I drew sketches for my original manuscript; the plan was that a professional would use them [...]

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Coming to a cinema near you…

I am currently taking a break from reading the proofs of How to Think Like a Mathematician. I have almost finished, which is just as well as I have to send them back this week.
Anyhow, various films are on the horizon. The worrying news is that there is a re-make of The Day the Earth [...]

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Cover of How to Think Like a Mathematician

I’ve got the proof of the cover of How to Think Like a Mathematician. You can see it at
http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~khouston/pdffiles/httlam_cover.pdf

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How to Think Like a Mathematician

One of the reasons for starting this blog is so that I can write about my book How to Think Like a Mathematician. I have been working on it for many years and it is due to be published on December 31 by Cambridge University Press. It even has an entry at Amazon but you can’t [...]

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