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.…
Puzzlebomb – October 2014
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.