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    Beautiful Science at the British Library

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 4, 2014

    The British Library has an exhibition on at the moment that you might like to see. Beautiful Science: Picturing Data, Inspiring Insight is all about data visualisation. Here’s the blurb: Turning numbers into pictures that tell important stories and reveal the meaning held within is an essential part of what it means to be a…

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    Elsevier maths journals up to 2009 are available for free, and in a convenient format

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 3, 2014

    A year and a bit ago, we posted about Elsevier’s possibly-generous, possibly-cynical move to make all papers in its maths journals free to access four years after their publication. I lamented at the time that the only way to access the free papers was through Elsevier’s sanity-sapping ScienceDirect portal. Well, not any more! The Mathematics…

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    John Conway on Numberphile!

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 3, 2014

    Numberphile, the supremum over all YouTube channels, has scored a bit of a coup – Brady has sat down and recorded an interview with the famously Internet-reclusive John Conway. In this first video (there’s a bonus one linked at the end of this one, and I hope there’ll be more) John talks about his love/hate…

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    Puzzlebomb – March 2014

    By Katie Steckles. Posted March 2, 2014

    Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 27 of Puzzlebomb, for March 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 27 – March 2014 The solutions to Issue 27 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 27 – March 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.

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    Erdős’s discrepancy problem now less of a problem

    By Katie Steckles. Posted February 25, 2014

    Boris Konev and Alexei Lisitsa of the University of Liverpool have been looking at sequences of $+1$s and $-1$s, and have shown using an SAT-solver-based proof that every sequence of $1161$ or more elements has a subsequence which sums to at least $2$. This extends the existing long-known result that every such sequence of $12$ or more elements…

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    Everyone’s terrible at maths, survey finds

    By Katie Steckles. Posted February 24, 2014

    A recent study commissioned by Nationwide Building Society has revealed that more than one in four girls want to drop maths at 14, that less than half of 12-13 year old students surveyed could correctly calculate their change from £100 when paying for shopping worth £64.23, and that 76% of those who would choose to drop…

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    Manchester MathsJam Writeup, February 2014

    By Katie Steckles. Posted February 24, 2014

    Tantrix layout

    We started the evening with a logic puzzle Paul had found on Stack Exchange, which is detailed in the diagram we drew:

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