Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 34 of Puzzlebomb, for October 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 34 – October 2014 The solutions to Issue 34 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 34 – October 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Maths at the Manchester Science Festival
Manchester Science Festival takes over the city from 23rd October – 2nd November this year, and it’s got a great selection of mathematical events. If you’re based locally, or thinking of heading over there for any of the time, here’s The Aperiodical’s guide to where to get your factorial fix.
Blooming Zoetrope Sculptures by John Edmark
John Edmark has 3d-printed a series of sculptures which do something rather remarkable when you rotate them. In the stop-motion animation above, the sculpture rotates by the golden angle in each frame. See more: Blooming Zoetrope Sculptures by John Edmark at Instructables. via Henry Segerman on Google+
Please tell people about Samuel’s Relatively Prime Series 2 Kickstarter
You probably remember Relatively Prime. This is a series of audio podcasts from my sometime collaborator Samuel Hansen, including stories about checkers, survival housing, swine flu, juggling, a Spanish basilica, and an alien civilization in England. They’re good. Go and listen to them. Cory Doctorow described himself on boingboing as “a great fan of Relatively…
Some more games to entertain a commutative mathematician
A while ago I collected a few of the mathsy games I play on my phone to while away my commute. I’ve found a few new ones since then, so I thought I’d do a new post to tell you about them.
Relatively Prime podcast series 2 Kickstarter
Friend of the Aperiodical Samuel Hansen has launched a Kickstarter to fund a second series of his maths podcast Relatively Prime. The first series was successfully funded in 2011 and consisted of eight hour-long episodes telling “stories from the mathematical domain”, including interviews with Tim Gowers, Matt Parker, David Spiegelhalter and more.
KaTeX is a (partial) alternative to (some of) MathJax
Khan Academy has released a new library to typeset mathematical notation on webpages, called KaTeX.