Today’s Google doodle (for those not in the know, the Google homepage alters its header based on the date, and on dates of special nerdy significance, they theme them around relevant birthdays/anniversaries) is about Maria Gaetana Agnesi, a female mathematician. Agnesi was born on 16th May 1718, making today her 296th birthday. This means you…
Primo, a board game which puts the ‘fun’ in the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, has now been successfully funded via Kickstarter. In a recent blog post, the creators Katherine Cook and Daniel Finkel boast: The game plays beautifully in play test after play test. It’s one of the most mathematically rich games we have ever seen, and…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of April, and compiled by Colin Beveridge, is now online at Flying Colours Maths. 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.
The Homotopy Type Theory book was an ambitious attempt to relay the foundations of maths on a combination of type theory and topology. It also makes heavy use of computer proof-checking, which might be why the US Department of Defense is interested in it: they’ve just given Carnegie Mellon University’s Steve Awodey $7.5 million to continue the project.…
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 29 of Puzzlebomb, for May 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 29 – May 2014 The solutions to Issue 29 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 29 – May 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
The American Mathematical Society has published its first book for children. It’s called Really Big Numbers. They’ve made a rather pleasant trailer for it. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOY9UAsCFM] It made me want to wait for the audiobook version: author Richard Evan Schwartz has a soothing Bob Ross-like voice. (Edit: turns out the voice is Alexander Dupuis) Really Big Numbers will be available…
Imagine, if you will, a group of people who enjoy recreational mathematics and consequently decide that there should be more places for them to share fun maths. It’s crazy and unprecedented, I know, but humour me. Recreational Mathematics Magazine does what it says on the tin. It’s a semiannual electronic journal published by the Ludus Association…