If you’re into tilings, or just looking to redo your bathroom in the most modern way possible, there’s big news. A team of researchers at the University of Washington-Bothell have discovered a previously unknown way to tile a plane using irregular pentagons.
At the end of an overnight flight from San Francisco to New York is hardly the ideal time to play “I Spy Mathematics” on a packed airplane. We were all grumpy and groggy from four scant hours of sleep. It seemed that nobody had watched any films en route and, like most of the other…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of July, and compiled by Nick, is now online at Data Genetics. 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.
Kit Yates has asked mathematicians to post a picture of themselves using the hashtag #realfaceofmath, in the hope of dispelling the incorrect stereotype that all mathematicians are geeky white guys with beards and glasses (hi!).
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 44 of Puzzlebomb, for August 2015, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 44 – August 2015 The solutions to Issue 44 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 44 – August 2015 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Here’s a round-up of some of this month’s maths news. The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics A group of applied mathematicians, including the University of Manchester’s Nick Higham, have been compiling a book on applied mathematics over the last few years, and they’ve announced it’s finally ready for publication. The book, which includes an introduction…
Vi Hart, Andrea Hawksley, Henry Segerman and Marc ten Bosch each independently have long track records of doing crazy, innovative stuff with maths. Together, they’ve made Hypernom.