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    Time tilings by Pablo Valbuena

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted September 4, 2013

    [vimeo url=https://vimeo.com/70587267] Time tilings by Pablo Valbuena via NotCot.org

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    Vuoristo by Fabien Barrero+Carsenat

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted August 30, 2013

    Vuoristo coffee table by Fabien Barrero+Carsenat. Nice conic sections!  

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    Open Season: Prime Numbers (part 2)

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 30, 2013

    In this short series of articles, I’m writing about mathematical questions we don’t know the answer to – which haven’t yet been proven or disproven. This is the third article in the series, and across two parts will discuss various open conjectures relating to prime numbers. This follows on from Open Season: Prime numbers (part 1).…

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    Events

    Statistics events at Conservative and Labour party conferences this autumn

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted August 29, 2013

    The Royal Statistical Society have announced ‘Show me the data’ events at the Conservative and Labour party conferences this autumn. Each conference will host three meetings relating to “the importance of interpreting and understanding statistics”, run by the RSS with the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Ipsos Mori.

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Your suggestions of iPad apps for university mathematics teaching

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted August 28, 2013

    I asked in the previous post for suggestions of iPad apps that I could use to help with my job as a university lecturer in mathematics. I asked specifically about annotating PDF files I had made using LaTeX and recording such activity. More generally, I asked what other apps might be useful to my job…

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    News

    Solids of Constant Width now available from Maths Gear

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 23, 2013

    If you like your shapes to be of constant width, friends of the Aperiodical Matt Parker and Steve Mould, who run Maths Gear, have long been the market leader in selling you flat 2D shapes which have the same diameter no matter which direction you measure in (well, them and the Royal Mint). But if…

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    Open Season: Prime Numbers (Part 1)

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 23, 2013

    In this short series of articles, I’m writing about mathematical questions we don’t know the answer to – which haven’t yet been proven or disproven. This is the third article in the series, and across two parts will discuss various open conjectures relating to prime numbers. I don’t think it’s too much of an overstatement…

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