With the announcement the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, it’s time for the latest in our ongoing Honours-watch series of posts. In this, we search arbitrarily for ‘mathematics’ in the PDFs of the various lists, and hope our well-informed readers fill in the blanks where actual knowledge is required.
IMA 50th Anniversary events
The IMA turns 50 this year, and is holding two celebration events and publishing a book.
Carnival of Mathematics 111
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May, and compiled by Peter Krauzberger, is now online at Boole’s Rings. 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 – June 2014
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 30 of Puzzlebomb, for June 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 30 – June 2014 The solutions to Issue 30 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 30 – June 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
CP and Cushing take the National Numeracy Challenge
Cushing was injured in a serious maths accident recently (he fell out of the bath) so I wanted to assess the damage to his number-wrangling faculties. Fortunately, there’s the National Numeracy Challenge, which begins with a test to pinpoint your weak areas. National Numeracy is a charity that wants every adult in the UK to “reach a level of numeracy skills that…
Discovering integer sequences by dealing cards
Let’s play a game: Imagine you have some playing cards. Of course if you actually have some cards you don’t need to imagine! Pick your favourite natural number $n$ and put a deck of $n$ cards in front of you. Then repeat the next step until the deck is empty. Take $2$ cards from the…
Mathematical soap bubbles by Juan Bragado
I recently tried to blow some clever soap bubbles to demonstrate some maths concepts to some students. It went terribly. Juan Bragado is much better at blowing mathematical bubbles, so he’s made this gentle video showing all sorts of soapy polyhedra, and other mathematical shapes made from bubbles. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEXj69hCi44] via John Golden on Twitter