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…
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…
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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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…