Axis is a retro-styled game a bit like Missile Command crossed with a graphing calcuator. Instead of pointing a turret and trying to estimate a parabolic trajectory ending at one of your enemies, your shot follows the path of any function $y=f(x)$ you can think of.
This happened on the BBC’s University Challenge this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOOsLvSfQAY&feature=youtu.be Jeremy Paxman might never recover from having his mind so thoroughly blown.
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of January, and compiled by Frederick Koh, is now online at White Group Mathematics. 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.
I just want to be done with Alan Turing posts, but stuff keeps happening. Here’s a very brief round-up of some recent Turing news: There’s a petition to Pardon all convicted gay men, not just Alan Turing. Sign it or don’t or write 12,000 words hemming and hawing about it all. Up to you. This is…
(This post has been updated following an email from Ron Chinitz) Here’s a new product vying to knock the set square off its throne as Least Useful Tool in the Pencil Case. CoordiMate is a rubber stamp which prints a teeny tiny set of axes. It’s supposed to help you with your homework. … for the…
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 38 of Puzzlebomb, for February 2015, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 38 – February 2015 The solutions to Issue 38 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 38 – February 2015 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
With all the attention we’ve been giving the LMS’s 150th birthday celebrations, it’s only fair to note that the Mathematical Association of America is 100 this year. The MAA is a fantastic organisation, as the famous maths people in this video testify: As is the way of these things, there are events throughout the year…