As of next month, you’ll be able to type TeX maths into Office 365 apps and it’ll work.
See the announcement on the Microsoft Developer blog for more details. Warning: it’s a bit complicated.
Review: ‘Power-Up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games’ by Matthew Lane
We’ve been sent a copy of Matthew Lane’s Power-Up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games, and despatched Aperiodical regular and video game fan Paul Taylor to review it.
ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are merging
Once upon a time (2011), there launched an online LaTeX editor called ShareLaTeX. The very next year, there launched an online LaTeX editor called writeLaTeX. In 2015, writeLaTeX rebranded as Overleaf. Both Overleaf and ShareLaTeX offer browser-based LaTeX editing. Think of it like Google Docs for LaTeX. Both operate under a freemium model. If you…
My Favorite Theorem podcast launched
As of this month, maths person Evelyn Lamb and colleague Kevin Knudson are producing a regular weekly maths podcast called ’My Favorite Theorem’. They plan to spend each episode talking with a mathematical professional about their favourite result in mathematics, as well as something which goes with it, such as a foodstuff or real-world object…
Subscript: We’re trying out a new shorter post format
We don’t have lots of time to write in-depth posts about maths news any more, what with having jobs and families to attend to, so we’ve set up this new Subscripts format for when we’ve seen a thing and want to share it but don’t have time to do any more than that.
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Algebraic Combinatorics ditches Springer
The editorial board of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics have announced they’re leaving Springer and setting up a new journal called Algebraic Combinatorics. The new journal will follow the principles of Fair OA – the key points are that the journal will be free to read, fees will be low, and acceptance won’t depend on ability…
Fun with microbiology: Virus, the Beauty of the Beast
Hamish Todd offers Virus, the Beauty of the Beast, an interactive documentary about viruses. Viruses have protein shells made of patterns which can be explored mathematically, and this link to tiling theory and geometric shapes provides a mathematical interest for the piece. Hamish is a former game designer, former teacher turned PhD student in computational…