Spanish independent publisher Kronecker Wallis is making a new edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematicia, using a Kickstarter campaign to fund the initial print run. Here’s their video: It looks like it’ll be a fairly pretty object, and they’ve put a lot of time and thought into choosing the paper, fonts and layout. Their Kickstarter runs…
Puzzlebomb – November 2016
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 59 of Puzzlebomb, for November 2016, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 59 – November 2016 (printer-friendly version) The solutions to Issue 59 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 59 – November 2016 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Curvahedra is a construction system for arty mathsy structures
Edmund Harriss is a very good friend of the Aperiodical, and a mathematical artist of quite some renown. His latest project is CURVAHEDRA, a system of bendable boomerang-like pieces which join together to make all sorts of geometrical structures.
The magic number 25641
Reader of the site Bhaskar Hari Phadke has written in to tell us this fun fact about the number $25641$. It’s easier to show than to describe, so here goes: \begin{align} 25641 \times \color{blue}{1} \times 4 &= \color{blue}{1}02564 \\ 25641 \times \color{blue}{2} \times 4 &= \color{blue}{2}05128 \\ 25641 \times \color{blue}{3} \times 4 &= \color{blue}{3}07692 \\ 25641 \times…
Carnival of Mathematics 139
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of September, and compiled by Manjil, is now online at Gonit Sora. 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.
“π – It’s Complicated” – a talk I gave on Pi Day 2016 at Ustinov College Café Scientifique
I was invited to give a talk for Ustinov College’s Café Scientifique on π Day this year. The turnout wasn’t great and I put quite a bit of effort into the slides, so I wanted to put it online. I’ve finally got hold of the recording, so here it is. Unfortunately they didn’t set the camera’s…
Maths at the Manchester Science Festival 2016
Here’s our annual round-up of what’s happening in sums/thinking at this year’s Manchester Science Festival. If you’re local, or will be in the area around 20th-30th October, here’s our picks of the finest number-based shows, talks and events.