Aperiodical cake-sleuth Katie, along with some other mathematicians, take on the baking challenge of Eugenia Cheng’s new book, while reviewing it.
Review: Cakes, Custard and Category Theory by Eugenia Cheng
Mathematical Scarves Kickstarter
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…
The Amazing World of MC Escher
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…
Registration for the 2015 MathsJam conference is now open
The MathsJam annual conference is a magical time when maths geeks converge on a conference centre in the middle of nowhere near Stone and spend a weekend sharing their favourite puzzles, games, and mind-blowing maths facts. Registration for the 2015 weekend, taking place on 6-7 November, has now been opened. More information about the conference, and…
Review: The Illustrated Lilavati, by Somdip Datta
Somdip Datta wrote in to tell us about his illustration of the classic maths textbook, Lilavati, by the Indian mathematician Bhāskara II. Lilavati contains definitions, algorithms and problems dealing with arithmetic, geometry, combinations, and quadratic equations, all written in meter.
UK National Lottery: now 21% more balls (rounded up)
This week, it was announced that from October the UK’s National Lottery, currently operated by Camelot and already providing a veritable Merlin’s cave of probability lessons for maths teachers, will be changing the rules for its main ‘Lotto’ draw. The main changes are that a new £1m prize will be added to the raffle element…
Carnival of Mathematics 123
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May, and compiled by David at Mathematical Mystery Tour, is now online: Carnival 123 Part 1 and Carnival 123 Part 2. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our…