MathsJam is an annual conference in the UK, and a monthly night in pubs around the world, organised respectively by mathematician and juggler Colin Wright, and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. We cornered Matt and Colin at the MathsJam conference last November, and talked to them for just over half an hour about the conference, the…
Here I attempt to write the abstract for my thesis, ‘A Partially-automated Approach to the Assessment of Mathematics in Higher Education’, “using only the ten hundred words people use the most often“.
A round up of blog posts from around the internet, carefully collected during December 2013.
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 25 of Puzzlebomb, for January 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 25 – January 2014 The solutions to Issue 25 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 25 – January 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
CP walks into the office. Cushing: Christian, look at this. I’ve asked Wolfram Alpha to plot a quadratic going through three squares.
Since I haven’t written a MathsJam recap for a few months, due to extreme busyness, this post will recap things which happened at December’s MathsJam as well as some other things I found in the pile of scrap paper when I went to tidy it all away over New Year.
[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbXaKxxUomE] Closer to a computer algebra system than a traditional calculator, this new app for iOS (iPhone and iPad) allows you to make calculations and create graphs, and mess around with the values to see what that does to the output. It looks like this is achieved without using any (explicit) symbolics, which results…