(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…
The nice chaps at Kitki, an educational board game company based in India, have come up with a cool idea for a mathematical board game. They’re funding it through IndieGoGo (which if you haven’t heard of it is a bit like Kickstarter), and they’re looking for your help.
This post popped into our news queue just before Christmas, and was forgotten about thanks to the seasonal good cheer. Well, it’s 2015 now, and our Nonsense Formula Disapprove-o-Matic is beeping angrily. We still can’t muster up enough enthusiasm to properly dig into this, so I’ve just tidied up the links I collected earlier on. Eugenia Cheng…
A question that has puzzled many inquiring minds across the ages is: why are honeycombs made of hexagonal cells?
This is a review of The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs and the search for the Ultimate Equation by Hannah Fry, a new book which Katie was sent an advance copy of. 3rd February 2015 (hardcover); Simon & Schuster/TED Hannah Fry, who’s a lecturer and public engagement fellow at UCL, has written a book. Following a…