Mathematician and author Professor Ian Stewart, helped by Touch Press and his publisher Profile Books, has recently released a new app for iOS (suitable for use on an iPad) called Incredible Numbers. We saw this tweet: I highly recommend Incredible Numbers, iPad app by Ian Stewart. New gold standard for interactive maths. For all. https://t.co/bI9YfUpViP…
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 28 of Puzzlebomb, for April 2014, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 28 – April 2014 The solutions to Issue 28 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 28 – April 2014 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
One of the last surviving Bletchley Park codebreakers, Jerry Roberts, has died aged 93. He was one of a small group of codebreakers who decrypted messages from the German High Command, including the German plans for the battle of Kursk. He initially worked on the Double Playfair hand cipher used by the German police, and…
You may recall that Samuel Hansen and I used to have a weekly conversation about mathematics in the news and news in mathematics, which we called the Math/Maths Podcast and released through the (still going!) science communication project Pulse-Project. When we put Math/Maths on hiatus (the length of which is still an open question), this…
Happy birthday to MC Hammer who, at age 52, is now mathematically untouchable.
Hey, you! Are you aware of MATH? Well, of course you’d say yes. But every year the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics runs a Math Awareness Month in April as an excuse to promote a load of great materials and events designed to attract other people to the subject.
Aperiodipal James Grime has put a new video on his YouTube channel. He’s got a problem to do with building houses: But James posts fantastic videos about maths puzzles all the time; what’s so notable about this one? I was involved, that’s what! The puzzle can be done on pen and paper but it involves…