Here’s a new numberiffic game from Veewo, the people who made noted Threes-a-like 1024 (which begat 2048, which inevitably begat 2048: Harry Styles edition). In Just Get 10, you have to get at least nineteen combine numbered blocks until you get one with a 10 on it. If you tap two adjacent blocks with the same number, they’re…
In the novel I, Claudius, Robert Graves imagines a conversation between three Roman historians: Claudius, Livy and Pollio. After a long argument involving moral decline and sulphurous sheep, the young Claudius comes to the conclusion that: “…There are two different ways of writing history: one is to persuade men to virtue, the other is to…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of November, and compiled by Rachel Thomas, is now online at Plus Magazine. 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.
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 36 of Puzzlebomb, for December 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 36 – December 2014 The solutions to Issue 36 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 36 – December 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Sometimes maths can make a very clear point about a complicated subject.
Here’s one of my favourite maths puns. What’s yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice? Zorn’s Lemon!!!!!!!! I like it because it’s a real groaner, but to even begin to see what it’s punning on you have to know some pretty obscure facts about set theory. That makes it an ideal maths pun. Maths puns…
Since you’re here reading this, you probably know that on October 30th, Matt “Friend of the Site” Parker released his book, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension. If you’ve gone one further and read it, you might have seen the occasional reference to the website, makeanddo4d.com. If that website is the book’s DVD extras,…