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    I bought isthisprime.com

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 7, 2016

    Around about exactly this time a year ago, I bought the frivolous domain name three.onefouronefivenine.com, to celebrate π Day and to indulge my curiosity about a marvellous algorithm to compute π’s digits. This year, I’ve been thinking about prime numbers, and my hosting provider has run another sale on domain names. So, I’ve bought isthisprime.com. You…

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    The arXiv overlay journal Discrete Analysis has launched

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 5, 2016

    Discrete Analysis, a new open-access journal for articles which are “analytical in flavour but that also have an impact on the study of discrete structures”, launched this week. What’s interesting about it is that it’s an arXiv overlay journal founded by, among others, Timothy Gowers.

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    Maths Objects: polyhedra

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 4, 2016

    Time for some more maths objects! This time I wanted to show you the various polyhedra I’ve got around my desk. The tetrahedron is made out of a paper plate, following the instructions on the brilliantly kooky wholemovement. The sonobe cube is a classic. Mine’s made out of Post-It notes. The swirly thing is made out…

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    The Man Who Knew Infinity trailer

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 2, 2016

    Here’s an official trailer for the long-awaited Ramanujan biopic, The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons. Looks good! IMDB reckons it’ll be out on the 8th of April. It’s taken long enough – we first reported on this film just over two years ago.

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    Puzzlebomb – March 2016

    By Katie Steckles. Posted March 1, 2016

    Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 51 of Puzzlebomb, for March 2016, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 51 – March 2016 The solutions to Issue 51 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 51 – March 2016 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found at Puzzlebomb.co.uk.

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    Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 8: Diegetic Plots, Chapter 2

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted February 29, 2016

    There really isn’t enough silliness in maths. Samuel has tried to inject some throughout the series, sometimes more successfully than others. This is the episode where he finally nails the silliness. Diegetic Plots, Chapter 2 is a nice finale to a generally good season of Relatively Prime. Dealing with sketches and haiku from the mathematical…

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    Maths Object: “Groups”, by Georges Papy

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted February 20, 2016

    I had the idea of doing short videos about mathematical objects I’ve got lying around. First up is a very unconventional group theory textbook.

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