Puzzlebomb – Issue 26 – February 2014
The solutions to Issue 26 can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 26 – February 2014 – Solutions
Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
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Open Problems in Mathematics, a new open access journal
Here’s a nice idea: a journal for people to write about open problems, with the aim of inspiring someone to have a go at solving them. Open Problems in Mathematics is a new open-access journal set up by Krzysztof Burdzy and a few others, and it’s online now.
Proof News: Designs exist!
The year in proofs has started with a big result in combinatorics: the existence conjecture for designs. As usual, weightier minds than ours have comprehensively explained the result, so I’ll just give a brief summary of the problem and then some links.
An Approach That Uses Computers a Bit to Ask Questions on Numbers and Stuff in Big School
Here I attempt to write the abstract for my thesis, ‘A Partially-automated Approach to the Assessment of Mathematics in Higher Education’, “using only the ten hundred words people use the most often“.
Carnival of Mathematics #106 – December 2013
Happy New Year! And welcome to the first Carnival of Mathematics of 2014. The Carnival is a monthly roundup of blog posts on or related to mathematics, from all over the internet. Posts are submitted by authors and readers, and collated by the host, whose blog it’s posted on. This month, the Carnival has pulled in here at The Aperiodical, and we’re all ready with our party hats for the celebration of mathematical blogging that implies.
Puzzlebomb – January 2014
Puzzlebomb – Issue 25 – January 2014
The solutions to Issue 25 can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 25 – January 2014 – Solutions
Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
A morning in the office with CP and Cushing
CP walks into the office.
Cushing: Christian, look at this. I’ve asked Wolfram Alpha to plot a quadratic going through three squares.
