This is a guest post, sent in by David, who’s discovered an interesting property of numbers, and is looking for collaborators to take it further. Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that…
What I did on my summer holidays
This summer my wife and I went to America on our honeymoon. We had a lovely time – it was hot, we saw stripey flags in all sizes, and we marvelled at what substances count as “food” in the land of the free. But what I really want to tell you about is the National Museum of…
Tiling a finite plane
Katie and Paul became homeowners recently. That naturally led to some mathematical DIY.
Review: Snowflake Seashell Star, by Alex Bellos & Edmund Harriss
Snowflake Seashell Star is a new mathematical colouring book, by Alex Bellos and Edmund Harriss, aimed at the lucrative ‘grown-up colouring books’ market that’s sprung up recently, heavily intersected with people who are interested in maths – the book can be used as a regular colouring book, but contains lots of interesting mathematical things, and mathematicians…
Carnival of Mathematics 126
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of August, and compiled by Stephen, is now online at CavMaths. 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.
Not mentioned on The Aperiodical this week, 18th September 2015
Gender inclusivity in mathematics at Harvard Some mathematicians at Harvard have formed an organisation called “Gender inclusivity in mathematics”, which is dedicated to “creating a community of mathematicians particularly welcoming to women interested in math and reducing the gender gap in Harvard’s math department.” They’re running a series of talks by invited speakers and discussion…
Terence Tao has solved the Erdős discrepancy problem!
Terence Tao has just uploaded a preprint to the arXiv with a claimed proof of the Erdős discrepancy problem.