The author Siobhan Roberts has sent us a copy of her new book, Genius at Play. There was a strong implication that we should review it. I’ve now read the book, so I’ll do that: I enjoyed it.
Now, uninteresting international standards news! It’s easy to forget about MathML, because unless you’re a publisher or doing complicated things with data flows, you never need to see it. I’m not doing a great job of selling this story, am I? I couldn’t even find a picture to illustrate it. After a lengthy lull in which MathML…
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 43 of Puzzlebomb, for July 2015, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 43 – July 2015 The solutions to Issue 43 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 43 – July 2015 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback.
Aperiodical cake-sleuth Katie, along with some other mathematicians, take on the baking challenge of Eugenia Cheng’s new book, while reviewing it.
If you like your accessories ‘provably unique’, check out this mathematically interesting Kickstarter project – KnitYak, aka Fabienne Serriere, is going to generate some knitting patterns for scarves algorithmically, so no two scarves will be the same. They’ve hacked a knitting machine to use cellular automata to generate unique black-and-white patterns, which will be knitted in merino…
M.C. Escher, not the DJ but the Dutch graphic artist, is well known as being hugely influenced by mathematics. His woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints (me neither) contain everything from warped perspective and optical illusions that play around with notions of distance and space, to beautiful tilings and tessellations with a distinctly mathematical flavour. The first…