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.
The minch, the mound and the light-gigaminch
On Wednesday 27th November 2013, friend of The Aperiodical and standup mathematician Matt Parker tweeted a link to his latest YouTube video. In the video Matt apologises for some remarks on the imperial number system that he made in an earlier Number Hub video about the A4 paper scale. He then goes into some of the…
Daydream by Nonotak Studio
[youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7l_UgHhBQ] via NotCot.org