The Man Who Knew Infinity was a well-received biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. Now it’s being made into a film: happy hooray! It’ll star Jeremy Irons as Hardy and Dev Patel as Ramanujan. That’s all the news about that, for now. More information Jeremy Irons to Co-star in ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ at Variety. Irons stars in maths…
NT matters (Wrapping up algebraic numbers)
Aperiodipal Nathan Barker sent me this video by Durham University’s Herbert Gangl, inspired by his number theory course last year. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTFCPnxe9Jc] I’ll never be able to think about algebraic numbers again without hearing this. Thanks, Herbert! No thanks, Nathan!
Nominations for LMS 2014 prizes open
Another year, another round of LMS prizes. Nominations for the 2014 prizes are now open. Quoth the LMS: In 2014, the LMS Council expects to award: The Pólya Prize – awarded in recognition of outstanding creativity in, imaginative exposition of, or distinguished contribution to, mathematics within the United Kingdom. The Fröhlich Prize – awarded for original and extremely innovative work in…
Puzzlebomb – December 2013
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 24 of Puzzlebomb, for December 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 24 – December 2013 The solutions to Issue 24 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 24 – December 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Infinite Monkey Maths
The latest episode of BBC Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage took “an irreverent and rational look at numbers, logic and mathematics” and is available to download for a length of time unbounded above in podcast form. More information Series 9, Episode 4: “To Infinity and Beyond” on BBC Radio 4. The Infinite Monkey Cage, on…
Carnival of Mathematics 105
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of November, and compiled by Oluwasanya Oluwafemi, is now online at Mathemazier. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.
Menger zoom by functor.co
I really really like this zoom into a Menger sponge made by Reuben Thomas of functor.co.