Fans of hyperbolic crochet, and hyperbole, will be pleased to hear that Daina Taimina’s exhibit ‘Hyperbolic Hyperbolic Hyperbolic‘ is being shown at the DUMBO Arts Festival in New York, on 28 & 29 September. The show features examples of hyperbolic crochet, and invites visitors to experiment with their own hyperbolic crochet and paper creations. More…
Acknowledging the long-hidden truth that mathematicians are also scientists, Jim al-Khalili interviewed Ian Stewart yesterday for his Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific. The show features a different scientist in each episode, and Professor al-Khalili talks to them about their life and work, what inspires and motivates them, and how their research may benefit mankind. Professor…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of August, and compiled by Michelle, is now online at My Summation. 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.
George Hart is putting on a one-man show of his sculptures at Stony Brook University. He’s posted this video of him walking through the exhibition and describing the pieces on display. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI1612YhMqg] George also gave a lecture to open the exhibition, which you can watch on the SCGP website. Euclid’s Kiss: Geometric Sculpture of…
You may be aware of GeoGebra. In a previous post, our very own CP described it as “a surprisingly capable piece of free dynamic maths software, used widely by teachers and geometry aficionados”. I am preparing lecture notes for the new academic year and have been making diagrams in GeoGebra (on Ubuntu, since you asked),…
You may have noticed our recent announcement of the proof of the Kadison-Singer conjecture, in which we weren’t able to go into that much detail about what the conjecture actually entails. Well, having been contacted by one of the authors of that paper, Adam Marcus, who emailed to congratulate us on the complete absence of any…
ACHTUNG: This post contains no information which could progress humanity’s understanding of the universe it inhabits. It contains links to several terrible newspapers. I have not fixed any of the issues in the source material, typographical, mathematical, grammatical, or otherwise. We are about to plumb the depths of innumeracy and inanity; consider yourself warned. The Manchester Evening…