MathJax, the web library that provides LaTeX-quality mathematical typesetting, has received a a new set of tools to improve accessibility of mathematical notation. The new MathJax Accessibility Extensions add on-the-fly speech rendering of notation, and a tool to explore expressions through intelligent collapsing and expanding of sub-expressions.
Puzzlebomb – June 2016
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 54 of Puzzlebomb, for June 2016, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 54 – June 2016 The solutions to Issue 54 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 54 – June 2016 – Solutions (printer-friendly version) Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found at Puzzlebomb.co.uk.
Carnival of Mathematics 135
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…