This is a nice short documentary by student filmmaker Damiano Petrucci about mathematics and mathematicians, why they do maths and how they communicate it. It’s got a load of names you’ll recognise, including Oxford’s Ben Green and Aperiodipal Matt Parker. via Colin Wright, who’s also in it!
K sera, sera: board of the Journal of K-Theory resigns (again) and starts a new journal (again)
The rumours are true: the editors which in 2007 resigned from the journal K-Theory have now resigned from the splinter journal they helped set up, Journal of K-Theory, to start a third journal, Annals of K-Theory. What a headache!
News Round-up, 21/10/14
Here’s some quick stories from the world of maths this week.
Petition absorbs way more signatures than this product with a stupid advert ever could
An Australian sanitary pad company has hit upon a witty tagline for their product: Literally thousands of people have signed a petition to tell Libra that that’s not OK.
‘The Imitation Game’ Cryptography Competition
To celebrate the release of the upcoming Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game (see our incisive analysis of the film’s trailer by James Grime) the guys at the University of Manchester – who have previously run the hugely successful Alan Turing Cryptography competition – have been asked to run a one-off Imitation Game Cryptography Competition. And they have.…
Carnival of Mathematics 115
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of September, and compiled by William Wu, is now online at MathTuition88. 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.
Integer Sequence Review – Sloane’s birthday edition!
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences contains over 200,000 sequences. It contains classics, curios, thousands of derivatives entered purely for completeness’s sake, short sequences whose completion would be a huge mathematical achievement, and some entries which are just downright silly. For a lark, David and I have decided to review some of the Encyclopedia’s sequences.…