Our very own Katie Steckles is currently residing mathematically in the University of Greenwich’s Stephen Lawrence Gallery. She’s there until Tuesday the 26th, doing a variety of numerical, geometrical and otherwisely logical things for anyone who pops along.
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of April, and compiled by Ed, is now online at Solve My Maths. 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.
You might have heard the story about the author of a calculus textbook that made so much money he could afford to build a mansion in the shape of an integral symbol. Well, his name was James Stewart and he died last December, so now Integral House is up for sale, for $23m. Yes, textbooks are…
Good news, logic fans! The Open Logic Project is a project to write an open-source textbook on logic. And if you read it, you’ll find tautologies like the last sentence completely thrilling. The book is aimed at a non-mathematical audience, mainly computer science and philosophy students, so it assumes very little knowledge of the basics. The project…
Crossing campus this afternoon, a student whose exam is later this week asked me “when you ask a real-world question on the exam and you want us to solve an ODE, can we just do it using formula we memorised from A-level physics?” Like what? “Like with one of the distance questions we might just…
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 41 of Puzzlebomb, for May 2015, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 41 – May 2015 The solutions to Issue 41 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 41 – May 2015 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Following on from the resignation of the editorial board, CUP has announced that it’s not publishing the Journal of K-Theory any more. The new journal started by the former editors, Annals of K-Theory, aims to start publishing papers online this year.