This month we had a lovely MathsJam, with plenty of old and new faces and a disturbing quantity of activity related to black and white counters. I’d brought a big pile of them and some stuff to do with them, and we got cracking.
Hello. My name’s Christian Perfect and I have some maths links for you. Brad Neely, a member in good standing of my list of male role-models, once made a show called China, IL. Here’s a clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r086uma9HBM Mathematicians like to tell non-mathematicians (and themselves) that real maths isn’t like that; real maths is about seeing the structure behind…
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 20 of Puzzlebomb, for August 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 20 – August 2013 The solutions to Issue 20 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 20 – August 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Six contestants. Four categories. Two mathematicians. One encyclopedia full of integers. NO HOLDS BARRED.
There’ll be quite a few mathsy acts at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Katie Steckles has got the details.
A group called Pyraloons set themselves the challenge of building the world’s biggest Sierpiński tetrahedron from balloons. And they succeeded! I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves:
Yesterday, with my tongue certainly in cheek, I tweeted to the BBC Breaking News Twitter account that I had handed in my thesis, with a promise of a press release to follow. Taking the lead from my over-inflated sense of self importance, Christian Perfect posted this news to The Aperiodical News feed as ‘Breaking: Peter…