The American Mathematical Society has published its first book for children. It’s called Really Big Numbers. They’ve made a rather pleasant trailer for it. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEOY9UAsCFM] It made me want to wait for the audiobook version: author Richard Evan Schwartz has a soothing Bob Ross-like voice. (Edit: turns out the voice is Alexander Dupuis) Really Big Numbers will be available…
A new recreational mathematics magazine from the Ludus Association
Imagine, if you will, a group of people who enjoy recreational mathematics and consequently decide that there should be more places for them to share fun maths. It’s crazy and unprecedented, I know, but humour me. Recreational Mathematics Magazine does what it says on the tin. It’s a semiannual electronic journal published by the Ludus Association…
Adventures in video abstracts
Here’s a fun thing I found: the Journal of Number Theory has a YouTube channel on which it publishes video abstracts of its papers. To my surprise, they’ve been doing it since 2008!
Rubik’s Cube is 40 years old
Invented in 1974, patented in 1975 and released for sale in Hungary in 1977, Rubik’s Cube could certainly be considered to have reached its 40th birthday this year. To celebrate, inventor Ernő Rubik has helped put together a special exhibition at Liberty Science Centre, New Jersey, celebrating the history of the hexahedral enigma. The exhibition, called…
Orchestral Biography of Turing
In an effort to save us from having to write up yet another Alan Turing-based news story, Adam Goucher over at Complex Projective 4-Space has kindly done it for us. Thanks, Adam! Read: Orchestral Biography of Turing, at Complex Projective 4-Space
Get a grip on mathematical symbolism with Loughborough University
Here’s yet another intro to mathematical thinking MOOC. Loughborough University, and in particular Professor Tony Croft, is offering a course called “Getting a grip on mathematical symbolism” through the FutureLearn platform. It starts on the 28th of April. There isn’t much information about the course online yet, apart from the brief description on the official…
Review(ish): Mathbreakers
We were first told about Mathbreakers a few months ago. It was at a very early stage of development, and it wouldn’t run on my PC. Now some time has passed, and I managed to run the most recent version last weekend. I’ve only played the demo, so a full review isn’t fair, but I thought…