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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 58 of Puzzlebomb, for October 2016, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 58 – October 2016 (printer-friendly version) The solutions to Issue 58 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Solutions 58 – October 2016 (printer-friendly version) Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.