For a brief moment at the start of the year, Google’s Chrome browser could render mathematical notation written in MathML. Since then, things have got worse for mathematics on the web. In February, the MathML rendering code was removed by Google, citing concerns about security and code quality. Now, a member of the Chromium team has…
Puzzlebomb – November 2013
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 23 of Puzzlebomb, for November 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 23 – November 2013 The solutions to Issue 23 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 23 – November 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
The arXiv has enabled MathJax!
A bit of slightly overdue but welcome news: the arXiv has enabled MathJax on paper abstract pages. Authors have regularly been using LaTeX syntax in their titles and abstracts, but now the arXiv typesets them automatically for you.
All Squared, Number 10: Maths journalism
Evelyn Lamb is a professional mathematician who has taken up journalism on the side. She received the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship last year, and spent the summer writing for the magazine Scientific American. We talked to her about maths journalism, the challenges involved in making advances accessible to a wider audience, and the differences between blogging and…
Prime gaps update
There’s been some progress on the bounded gaps between primes front since we last checked in. The Polymath8 project has got the gap down to $4,680$. But that’s small beans: James Maynard, a postgrad student at Oxford, announced at a meeting in Oberwolfach that he has got the gap down to $700$. Emmanuel Kowalski has…
iSquared Magazine available for free download
I am delighted to report that the IMA and the National STEM Centre have made all twelve issues of iSquared Magazine available as PDFs for free download for the first time. The magazine was produced as a print-only publication by Sarah Shepherd from 2007-10.
GeoGebra Conference Budapest 2014
Just thought I’d bring the upcoming GeoGebra Conference 2014 in Budapest to your attention. The main purpose of the conference is to provide a meeting platform for [International GeoGebra Institute (IGI)] members, and GeoGebra users, including teachers of all levels, educators, researchers, and developers from all over the World. The conference will allow ample time…