It’s now been a year since I took over the puzzle column at New Scientist and turned it into the BrainTwisters column. By way of celebration, I thought I’d write up an interesting bit of maths behind one of the puzzles, which I made a note of at the time and have been meaning to…
Because there’s really no excuse for ho-ho-ho-CAH-TOA Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread mathematical joy and delight, without recourse to magical reindeer. Somewhat embarrassingly, I’ve shown up for class outside of term-time but then… so have you. Let’s make the most of it! This week’s pictures…
A conversation about mathematics inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Game of Logic. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Or The Novice’s Guide To Achieving Mathematical Immortality This is a guest post from Barney Maunder-Taylor. A great way to achieve mathematical immortality is to solve an outstanding open question, like determining if \( \pi+e \) is rational or irrational, or finding a counterexample to the Goldbach Conjecture. But for most of us, a more…
If you’ve got a mathematical friend you need to buy a Christmas gift for but have left it too late, here’s some suggestions for what you could get them, drawn from things our friends are doing (that don’t need you to wait for something to arrive in the post).
Double Maths First Thing is the biscotti to your Wednesday morning coffee Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in maths. This week’s links I have a difficult relationship with AI. I wrote about it here. tl;dr: it doesn’t fill me with joy and delight,…
Over at the Finite Group, members (including me and Katie) have been discussing what in maths news has excited us this year. Here’s a summary. Brayden Casella and fellow authors claimed that there exists a non-terminating game of Beggar-My-Neighbour, solving one of John H. Conway’s anti-Hilbert problems. Beggar-My-Neighbour is a card game similar to War…