CP walks into the office. Cushing: Christian, look at this. I’ve asked Wolfram Alpha to plot a quadratic going through three squares.
A morning in the office with CP and Cushing
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…
Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2014
With the announcement of honours for 1,195 people in the 2014 New Years list, it’s time for the latest in our ongoing Honours-watch series of posts. In this, we search arbitrarily for ‘mathematics’ in the PDFs of the various lists, and hope our well-informed readers fill in the blanks where actual knowledge is required.
Toast Formula Update!
A press release from the Royal Society of Chemistry: Formula for the perfect cheese on toast revealed. Oh dear.