3Blue1Brown is Grant Sanderson, who’s writing software to help make videos explaining maths. So far, it’s going pretty well!
3Blue1Brown makes really clear videos about maths
Math Stack: a really pretty deck of cards with maths on
Math Stack is a deck of playing cards with mathematical artwork on the faces. The makers call it “a potent and effective learning tool”. I’m not convinced about that, but they are so pretty! So pretty!
Dr. Isomorpheus is a crazy mathematician
Nishika Bhatia wrote in to tell us about Dr. Isomorpheus, a webcomic about mathematicians. It’s full of weak puns of the “abelian grape” variety. You might like it! Read: Dr. Isomorpheus
I’ve made my own numbers-in-a-grid game
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been obsessively playing the game Twenty on my phone. Then I decided to make my own game in a similar vein. The fact that my wife has consistently been ahead of my high scores has nothing to do with it.
Programming to investigate Quarto
I was invited to contribute to a special issue of The Mathematics Enthusiast on ‘Risk – Mathematical or Otherwise‘, guest edited by Egan J Chernoff. I wrote about the Maths Arcade and programming strategies for a game we play there called Quarto. Really, I was sketching an outline of an idea to encourage student project…
Maths at the Cheltenham Science Festival, 2015
Next week, Cheltenham takes a break from being the home of horse racing and literary and music festivals, and generally being a regency spa town, to put on their amazing Science Festival. There’s a decent amount of maths in the programme, so here’s a round-up of the maths on offer (leaving aside, of course, the fact that…
The Other Half – Parable of the Polygons
Anna Haensch and Annie Rorem are the hosts of a new podcast, The Other Half. This is the second of two posts based on the first episode, about racism and segregation. In the first part of episode one, we use the Racial Dot Map to get a sense of what race looks like in our country. And…