Here’s a tweet from Alex Bellos this morning: BBC claims Nigerian solves Riemann Hypothesis, most famous problem in maths. Surely a hoax! https://t.co/Wkltfkh2P3 https://t.co/UHGy9W8shC — Alex Bellos (@alexbellos) November 17, 2015 He’s right to be surprised – as reported in Vanguard, a Nigerian newspaper: The 156-year old Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most important problems in Mathematics, has…
Internet 3D printing emporium Shapeways has released a nifty little tool to create your own unique Christmas bauble, which they’ll print out and send to you in time for the festive season. It works by mapping a triangular design onto a blown-out icosahedron, and applying some “kaleidoscope effects”. As far as I can tell, that…
Eugenia Cheng was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert recently. Here it is:
When I worked for the MSOR Network under the National HE STEM Programme, we funded a project called Being a Professional Mathematician which was run by Tony Mann (University of Greenwich) and Chris Good (University of Birmingham). This included the production of a set of audio interviews with mathematicians about their work and historians about…
A mix of mathematical games, apps to help with calculations, and some frankly awful art.
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of September, and compiled by Tom, is now online at Mathematics and Coding. 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.
Our good friends at Maths Gear have sent us a tube of “unique polyhedral dice” to review. The description on mathsgear.co.uk says they’re “made from polyhedra you don’t normally see in the dice world”. My first thought was that we should test they’re fair by getting David to throw them a few thousand times but — while…