A survival guide for young mathematicians written by Pete Casazza has been doing the rounds today. It contains an experienced mathematician’s advice for young mathematicians starting out on their careers and unsure of what to expect or what’s expected of them.
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Math/Maths 94: Broadcasting From A Hollowed Out Volcano
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: Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ; Biography by Turing's mother republished; Bletchley Park to host Loebner Prize competition; How the universe began; Biodiversity model reliability; MathAlive; Volcanic eruptions and Benford's Law; New Careers section on Plus Magazine; QAMA Calculator now shipping; Harvard Library view on journal pricing; The Aperiodical launches; and more.
Get this episode: Math/Maths 94: Broadcasting From A Hollowed Out Volcano
Model predicts prevalence of left-handedness in sports populations
Research has been published describing a mathematical model that successfully predicts the ratios of left-handers to right-handers in different sports.
2012 Loebner Prize to be held at Bletchley Park & streamed online
The 2012 Loebner Prize competition (based on the Turing test) will be held at Bletchley Park. A Bletchley Park Trust press release explains the competition procedure:
The judges at the competition will conduct conversations with the four finalist chatbots and with some human surrogates, and will then rank all their conversation partners from most humanlike to least humanlike. The chatbot with the highest overall ranking wins the prize [a bronze medal and $7,000].
The competition will take place on 15 May 2012, starting at 1:00pm. Visitors to the Park will be able to follow the conversations on screens in the Mansion and these will also be streamed live online for the first time.
Carnival of Mathematics 86 submissions are due
The next Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging round up hosted by a different blog each month and coordinated by The Aperiodical, will be hosted at The Math Less Travelled in May 2012. Submissions are due by Tuesday so please consider any blog posts either you have written or you have enjoyed on another blog this month and submit them to the Carnival.
APPROXYMOTION by Peter A Vikar
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Peter’s site is full of beautifully stark geometric/topological art
Classic maths books reset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg
I was going to save this for an Aperiodical Round Up but it’s such a good thing I thought I’d post it straight away. Project Gutenberg has moved on from offering just plain-text transcriptions of books: volunteers have been outstandingly generous with their time and produced LaTeX versions of many maths books, producing versions that are considerably more readable and resemble the original editions much more closely.
Not all the books in that list have been converted to LaTeX yet. Of those that have, GH Hardy’s A Course of Pure Mathematics leaps out as a good place to start. Compare it with this book still in HTML format to see the difference.
(via reddit)