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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…
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…
The London Mathematical Society has announced the winners of its various prizes and medals for this year. Here’s a summary of the more senior prizes: Alex Wilkie gets the Pólya prize for “his profound contributions to model theory and to its connections with real analytic geometry.” Peter Cameron gets a Senior Whitehead prize for “his…
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull said, as part of a speech proposing a law to force tech companies to give the government access to encrypted messages, “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.” The problem is that the end-to-end encryption schemes used by messaging…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of June, and compiled by Lucy, is now online at Cambridge Mathematics. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.
There have been various stories in the Italian press and discussion on a Physics teaching mailing list I’m accidentally on about a question in the maths exam for science high schools in Italy last week. The paper appears to be online. (Ed. – Here’s a copy of the first part of this four-part question, reproduced…