This is a blog post based on a Google+ post about a tweet. I can only hope that it will inspire a further flourishing of vines, instagrams and Yo!-s. I saw this graph (originally from job stats site msgooroo.com) posted by a functional programming news site: The accompanying tweet said “More reasons to choice Functional…
This is a nice short documentary by student filmmaker Damiano Petrucci about mathematics and mathematicians, why they do maths and how they communicate it. It’s got a load of names you’ll recognise, including Oxford’s Ben Green and Aperiodipal Matt Parker. via Colin Wright, who’s also in it!
The rumours are true: the editors which in 2007 resigned from the journal K-Theory have now resigned from the splinter journal they helped set up, Journal of K-Theory, to start a third journal, Annals of K-Theory. What a headache!
Here’s some quick stories from the world of maths this week.
An Australian sanitary pad company has hit upon a witty tagline for their product: Literally thousands of people have signed a petition to tell Libra that that’s not OK.
To celebrate the release of the upcoming Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game (see our incisive analysis of the film’s trailer by James Grime) the guys at the University of Manchester – who have previously run the hugely successful Alan Turing Cryptography competition – have been asked to run a one-off Imitation Game Cryptography Competition. And they have.…
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.