Is Sir Michael Atiyah giving lecture on Monday Sept. 25 @ #HLF18? Yes.Will he presenenting a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis? Yes, that is what his abstract says. pic.twitter.com/v1dJhUUUEk — Heidelberg Laureate Forum (@HLForum) September 20, 2018 The internet is buzzing with the news: algebraic topologist and geometer Sir Michael Atiyah has announced that at…
LaTeX for typesetting a multi-pile Nim game
Update July 2020: I have now taken the plunge and written this into a LaTeX package called nimsticks. The version in the package is an improved version of the macro given below in a couple of ways – it works with LuaTeX and XeTeX, and it has both block-centred and inline modes. I describe this…
Polyhedra Viewer – meet Nat Alison
We spoke to Nat Alison (@tesseralis), creator of the amazing Polyhedra Viewer.
Hannah Fry’s Hello World is Radio 4 Book of the Week
This week Radio 4 has chosen Hannah Fry’s new book Hello World as its Book of the Week. This means excerpts from the book are read out each day, and you can listen along on iPlayer Radio.
To find out what the book’s like, read this review by Colin Beveridge.
Combining Tricurves
In July, guest author Tim Lexen wrote about his discovery of the tricurve, a shape made of arcs that has some interesting properties. He’s written a follow-up in which he explores them further. For a discussion of tiling with curve-sided shapes in general, see Tim’s MathBlog post. Tricurves can be combined when the large, convex arc of one…
Maths at the British Science Festival 2018
Guest author Kevin Houston has written a round-up of maths-related events at next week’s British Science Festival. The British Science Festival is taking place in Hull and the Humber 11-14th September. There are lots of talks so I’ve put together a handy guide to talks with a mathematics-related theme.
The Joy Of Winning documentary on BBC2
MATHS FANS! A rare treat for you. Tomorrow night, BBC4 will show The Joy of Winning – an hour long proper proper maths doc packed to the brim with glorious game theory. I think it might just be my favourite thing I've ever done for telly. pic.twitter.com/Xx09Wowwzz
— Hannah Fry (@FryRsquared) August 27, 2018
Hannah Fry presents a new one-off BBC4 documentary about game theory (reading the description, it sounds more classic than combinatorial), which the BBC4 website describes as a “gleefully nerdy adventure”. Should be fun!
This is tomorrow, 28th August 2018 at 9pm on BBC4 and on iPlayer after.
Update: iPlayer link to The Joy Of Winning.