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…
The Man Who Knew Infinity trailer
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.
Puzzlebomb – March 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.
Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 8: Diegetic Plots, Chapter 2
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…
Maths Object: “Groups”, by Georges Papy
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.
Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 7: $f(\theta) = 1 – \theta$
I’d have written it as $r = 1 – \theta$, myself, but even then it’s not much of a heart. However, that’s pretty much my biggest gripe about this episode, the penultimate in series 2 of Samuel Hansen’s one-of-a-kind mathematics podcast, Relatively Prime. Episode 7 is subtitled “Dating in the mathematical domain”, and looks at…
Christopher Zeeman has died
Last weekend mathematician Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman passed away. A giant of mathematics research, he worked in geometry, topology, knot theory and singularity theory, and was also a great populariser of mathematics. He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 1978 – not only was this the first time the lectures had been on the subject of mathematics, it…