The Mathematical Association of America asked its Facebook fans to send in pictures of their mathematical pumpkins. They answered the call admirably!
You can see the pictures at the MAA’s Facebook page. I particularly like the honeycomb one.
The Mathematical Association of America asked its Facebook fans to send in pictures of their mathematical pumpkins. They answered the call admirably!
You can see the pictures at the MAA’s Facebook page. I particularly like the honeycomb one.
Tim Locke displayed his geometric metalwork at the 2012 Bridges conference.
via Mr Honner
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 11 of Puzzlebomb, for November 2012, can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 11 – November 2012
The solutions to Issue 11 can be found here:
Puzzlebomb – Issue 11 – November 2012 – solutions
Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Having gathered a few data points about people’s availability for the recreational maths seminar, and heavily weighted towards my own, it looks like weekend evenings are the most convenient times for everyone to get together for the recreational maths seminar. So, let’s say 7pm GMT on Sunday evening, the 11th of November. That’s 2pm EST (New York), 11am PST (California) and 6am EDT (Eastern Australia, on the 12th of November).
I’ve posted my recollections of what happened at last month’s Newcastle MathsJam over at my mathem-o-blog.
Since the date is palindromic, and the weekday starts with an F, it’s time for another instalment of Follow Friday! Here’s some people I recommend following if you’re on Twitter, and some enjoyable tweets/links for you to look at if not.
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of October, is now online at White Group Mathematics.
The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For more information about the Carnival of Mathematics, click here.