A round up of blog posts from around the internet, carefully collected during December 2013.
Puzzlebomb – January 2014
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.
A morning in the office with CP and Cushing
CP walks into the office. Cushing: Christian, look at this. I’ve asked Wolfram Alpha to plot a quadratic going through three squares.
Manchester MathsJam Recap, December-ish 2013
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.
Tydlig, a nice calculator for iOS
[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…
By Napier’s bones! A new exhibition celebrating the inventor of logarithms
Put away your calculators – the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh has announced that it will host an exhibition all about John Napier to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of his treatise on logarithms, Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. Napier’s pioneering work on logarithms offered simple and elegant solutions to previously laborious and…
OEIS contest for January AMS/MAA meeting
Top chap (and newest Aperiodipal?) Neil Sloane, founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, wrote in to direct our attention towards a “best new integer sequence” contest being run on the sequence-fans mailing list. Any sequence submitted between the middle of December and the middle of January is eligible. The winners (of which there…