Previously, we posted about Katie’s Binary Nail varnish tutorial video, and how you can use glitter (1) and no glitter (0) to encode binary messages in your nail varnish. We also posted an accompanying puzzle, stated as: Suppose I want to paint my nails on one hand differently every day for a month – so…
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 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.
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.
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…
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.
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