If you enjoyed the magnificent ridiculousness of Matt Parker’s MegaMenger international fractal building project, but would prefer something slightly lower-dimensional, we’ve found the collaborative international fractal-building project for you! A team led by José L. Rodríguez at the University of Almería, in Spain (who also built a Menger Sponge for MegaMenger) are attempting to build a giant…
Carnival of Mathematics 118
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of December, and compiled by Andrew Taylor, is now online at AndrewT.net. 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.
Watch the LMS become very old, LIVE
We haven’t properly mentioned until now that The London Mathematical Society is 150 years old this year. You can’t gather a whole society of mathematicians together without one or two of them noticing that 150 is a nice round number, and some form of celebration is in order.
The Aperiodical’s Best Maths Pun of 2014 Competition – The Results
It’s time to reveal the results of our search for the best maths pun of 2014. First of all, a startling number of you seemed unclear as to what a pun is. Yet others seemed not to notice that we were asking for new puns, so we had to rule those out as well. After ruling out…
Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2015
It’s time for our traditional trawl through the New Years Honours list for mentions of “mathematics”, hoping that better-informed readers will fill in the people this crude method has missed. I’ve found the following names:
Ivor Grattan-Guinness 1941-2014
An obituary has been published in The Guardian for Ivor Grattan-Guinness, historian of mathematics and logic, who died of heart failure on 12th December 2014. This begins by explaining that when Ivor became interested in the history of mathematics in the 1960s, it was an area of study widely considered to be irrelevant to mathematics…
Puzzlebomb – January 2015
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 37 of Puzzlebomb, for January 2015, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 37 – January 2015 (corrected version) The solutions to Issue 37 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 37 – January 2015 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.