The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May, and compiled by Gaurish, is now online at Gaurish4Math. 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.
Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2016
With the announcement the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, it’s time for the latest in our ongoing Honours-watch series of posts. In this, we search arbitrarily for ‘mathematics’ in the PDFs of the various lists, and hope our well-informed readers fill in the blanks where actual knowledge is required. Prof. Alice Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, King’s…
Just how big is a big proof?
With news that a recent proof of the Boolean Pythagorean Triples Theorem is the ‘largest proof ever’, we collect and run-down some of the biggest, baddest, proofiest chunks of monster maths.
Armadillo Vault held together only by friction
More information at Wired. via math-fun.
“How can you do coursework for maths?” What I marked this year
A while ago I was helping out at an open day. The material presented gave some information about the range of assessment types we use. A potential applicant asked me “how can you do coursework for maths?”. She felt that (what she understood as) maths could only be assessed by examination. (This is presumably because…
CLP reads “Non-sexist solution to the ménage problem”
I rediscovered this nice paper by Kenneth P. Bogart in my Interesting Esoterica collection, and decided to read through it. It turned out that, while the solution presented is very neat, there’s quite a bit of hard work to do to along the way. I’m not particularly experienced with combinatorics, so the little facts that the…
There was a “beauty of maths” garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. Yeah, sure, why not
The Winton Beauty of Mathematics Garden was an entry in this year’s Chelsea Flower Show. It looks like this: Apparently those symbols winding their way around the garden are “plant growth algorithms”, whatever those are. There’s also a golden-ratio-thingy water feature, of course. You can thank Winton Capital, sponsors of all sorts of worthy maths projects, for…