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Part 1.

So, by the end of the previous post on Mathematica and Graph Theory, we had managed to take our single string of text and turn it into a graph of ingredients where nodes linked by edges go well together. Now we actually want to do something useful with this data – ie. come up with some recipes!

We will refer in the following to foodgraph as the graph of all of the food pairings we started with.

We will define a recipe very loosely as a set of ingredients all of which go well together. This is clearly far from a real recipe, but it’s a pretty good starting point for one.

Within the graph, a set of ingredients which all go well together form what is known as a connected subgraph – each node is linked to every other node. It’s no good having a recipe where A goes well with B and B goes well with C, but A doesn’t go well with C.…

Part 1 in this series can be found here.

So, by the end of the previous post on Mathematica and Graph Theory, we had managed to take our single string of text and turn it into a graph of ingredients which go well together. Now we actually want to do something useful with this data – ie. come up with some tasty recipes!

We will refer in the following to foodgraph as the graph of all of the food pairings we started with

We will define a recipe very loosely as a set of ingredients all of which go well together. This is clearly far from a real recipe, but it’s a pretty good starting point for one.

Within the graph, a set of ingredients which all go well together form what is known as a connected subgraph – each node is linked to every other node. It’s no good having a recipe where A goes well with B and B goes well with C, but A doesn’t go well with C.…

A quick perusal of the history of mathematics and one quickly gets a sense that sub-Saharan Africa has not made any meaningful contributions to modern mathematics. This ‘absence’ gives a distinct impression that there was very little, if any, mathematics practised in the region during pre-colonial times. But this stands against reason; mathematics in the main was developed by stable societies in order to facilitate trade and agriculture. Over the last millennia, sub-Saharan Africa has been home to numerous enduring civilizations, occupying different regions at different times, and engaged in agriculture and trade at varying extents; from the Nok civilizations of West Africa to the Buganda in the East, from the Great Kongo people of central Africa, to the Mutapa Empire in the South; of all these civilizations, could none have practised mathematics in a form that can be understood today? With these and many other considerations, I set about investigating the history of mathematics in Africa.…

Crypto Giant members together with the founder of Under Twenty Mathematicians programme, Professor Jean Lubuma participated in Mathematics awareness initiative that target high school Learners.  The aim of the project is to identify schools where there is a lack of information about tertiary education opportunities and careers in Mathematics, and to identify the learners which they can groom into pursuing a career in Mathematical Sciences.

In 2014, the group saw a need to pay it forward since they’d gained much from others. Thus they started tutoring classes for calculus and linear algebra to first year students every Saturday morning.  This is where they identified the gap that existed between high school mathematics and first year mathematics. Some students struggled with problem solving approaches, others weren’t even sure why they were there and most concerning was the deteriorating love of Mathematics. Some members of the group also identified with the struggles that the students were facing.…