The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of March, and compiled by Tony Mann, is now online at Tony’s Maths Blog. 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.
Domputer: the movie
If anyone remembers October 2012 (ahh, those were the days) you might recall we wrote about Aperiodipal Matt Parker, and his crazy project to build a computer out of dominoes. Well, it happened, but not much has happened since – sorting out a video of the event has taken a while. But it’s ready now!…
App review: Tydlig, a calculator app for iOS
You may remember that we previously posted about Tydlig, a new calculator app for iOS. We asked if anyone would be interested in writing a review, and Aoife, who’s written the article below, kindly obliged. Tydlig is a reimagined calculator on iOS and provides an innovative, freeform canvas where multiple calculations can be built and…
App review: Incredible Numbers, by Ian Stewart
Mathematician and author Professor Ian Stewart, helped by Touch Press and his publisher Profile Books, has recently released a new app for iOS (suitable for use on an iPad) called Incredible Numbers. We saw this tweet: I highly recommend Incredible Numbers, iPad app by Ian Stewart. New gold standard for interactive maths. For all. https://t.co/bI9YfUpViP…
Puzzlebomb – April 2014
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 28 of Puzzlebomb, for April 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 28 – April 2014 The solutions to Issue 28 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 28 – April 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Jerry Roberts has died
One of the last surviving Bletchley Park codebreakers, Jerry Roberts, has died aged 93. He was one of a small group of codebreakers who decrypted messages from the German High Command, including the German plans for the battle of Kursk. He initially worked on the Double Playfair hand cipher used by the German police, and…
Guesting on the ‘Wrong, But Useful’ first anniversary episode
You may recall that Samuel Hansen and I used to have a weekly conversation about mathematics in the news and news in mathematics, which we called the Math/Maths Podcast and released through the (still going!) science communication project Pulse-Project. When we put Math/Maths on hiatus (the length of which is still an open question), this…