I had a spare day yesterday so, rather than clean my house, I made a model of the SKI combinator calculus out of a pizza box.
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NRICH Site has had a facelift
Everyone’s favourite source of excellent maths activities for all ages, NRICH, has been inspired by our change of font and has redesigned their site. It is still full of excellent ideas and teaching resources, as well as puzzles and games. Fans of rounded rectangles will especially like the slick new design and easy-to-use sections for different age groups.
What do you think of the redesign? Do you already use the NRICH site? Will you from now on? Comments below.
New fonts on the site
I’ve just installed the Computer Modern fonts here, to make the site look that little bit more mathsy. We’re using Computer Modern Concrete for headers and Computer Modern Bright (aka the Beamer font) for the rest of the text.
What do you think? Does it look OK? Have you had any problems with fonts not loading, or being displayed oddly?
Math/Maths 113: Boing! And Relatively Prime is Live
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released.
A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Relatively Prime is on the air and on boingboing; ABC now mainstream: in Telegraph and NY Times; Feit-Thompson totally checked by Coq Proof Assistant; Only in 3D are spheres the worst packers; New Maths Triggers a Call to Iron Out Quantum World; Ig Nobel Goes To Study of Swaying Ponytails; Go First dice; BBC/Met Office communicating uncertainty using ‘possible futures’; Math Metal Golden Ratio; Difference Engine Made of Lego; MOOC Liftoff and more.
Get this episode: Math/Maths 113: Boing! And Relatively Prime is Live
Calculus of the Nervous System
Anyone who caught any of this summer’s BBC Proms may have noticed that in the midst of the World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival, someone managed to sneak in a bit of mathematics. Emily Howard, whose degree was in Mathematics and Computing at Oxford, has become a composer whose works are performed alongside Glinka and Shostakovich. I spoke to Emily about her latest composition, Calculus of the Nervous System, which was part of this year’s Prom 51, on 21st August.
IMA Mathematics 2013 Conference
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications’s flagship general mathematical interest conference, ‘Mathematics’, is getting ready for its eighth outing in 2013. Mathematics 2013 focuses on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, an international collaboration, including talks on climate, education, energy and demography. The website expresses a hope that
the audience will have mathematicians, those who work with mathematicians in policy forming roles, and anyone who has an interest in developments in the applications of mathematics.
The conference will take place on Thursday 14 March 2013 at Mary Ward House in London. A programme and registration for the conference are available via the website.
Source: IMA Mathematics 2013.
Math/Maths 112: Matt Parker’s Domino Computer
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released.
A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke to Matt Parker about the inner workings of his Domino Computer for the Manchester Science Festival; and they spoke to each other about: The claimed proof of the ABC conjecture; The astronomical unit gets voted fixed; 3.14159 IN THE SKY; Higgs boson papers published; BAM Einstein on the Beach; Mathblogging.org’s Mathematical Instruments; Steven Strogatz’s Me, Myself and Math; Relatively Prime’s The Toolbox; and more. Get Relatively Prime via relprime.com
Get this episode: Math/Maths 112: Matt Parker’s Domino Computer