Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 32 of Puzzlebomb, for August 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 32 – August 2014 The solutions to Issue 32 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 32 – August 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
John Venn is 180
Today is the 180th Birthday of John Venn, inventor of the often-misused mathematical staple the Venn Diagram. In celebration, Google have made today’s Google Doodle be a playful interactive toy where you can select two categories and it’ll show you something in the intersection. Here’s some of our other favourite Venn diagrams from the internet: ‘Math’,…
Listen to the premiere of “A Man from the Future”
I could have sworn we posted about the fact the Pet Shop Boys were writing some music about Alan Turing, but I can’t find anything in the archives. Anyway, the Pet Shop Boys have written a piece of music “inspired by codebreaker Alan Turing”, titled A Man from the Future (not The Man from the Future, the 2011…
An Alan Turing expert watches the “The Imitation Game” trailer
We weren’t sure quite what to think about the recently-released trailer for The Imitation Game. We don’t know enough about either films or Alan Turing to give an authoritative opinion. James Grime, on the other hand, knows a lot about both… The trailer for the highly anticipated new film about mathematician Alan Turing was released this…
Maths movie round up
You wait and wait for a movie about a mathematical genius, and then three come at once. I’ve got Turing, I’ve got Ramanujan, I’ve got Erdős.
Twin primes go to Washington
This isn’t new, but it just came to my attention and it’s fun: US Representative Jerry McNerney, an engineer by trade, got so excited by the recent twin prime conjecture advances that he just had to tell the rest of the House about it. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6GCY9i6tY] I don’t know how the American parliament works – did…
Carnival of Mathematics 112
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of June, and compiled by Robin Whitty, is now online at Theorem of the Day. 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.