I’ve been catching up with the TES Maths Podcast. I just listened to episode 7, towards the end of which guest Brian Arnold shares ‘the Frogs puzzle’. You probably know this, but if not Brian points to the NRICH interactive version which explains: Imagine two red frogs and two blue frogs sitting on lily pads,…
Maths Careers Poster Competition 2013/14
The IMA Maths Careers website has launched its annual poster competition. This time in collaboration with the British Museum’s Citi Money Gallery and part of the Mathematics of Planet Earth, the competition asks entrants to design a single global currency: Imagine there was a single global currency; what would it look like? How big would…
Computational mathematics in the cloud with Sagemath
Sage is a free, open-source computational mathematics system in the vein of things like Mathematica and Maple. For the past few years, there’s been an online version called the Sage Notebook which worked pretty well, but it was pretty slow and not particularly easy to use. Now the creator of Sage, William Stein, has started work…
Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle – 24th Sept
Matt’s at it again, posting puzzles on that Twitter: Fun fact: you can arrange all the numbers from 1 to 17 so that each adjacent pair adds to a square number. Off you go! #mathspuzzle — Matt Parker (@standupmaths) September 24, 2013 Plus a clarification: To clarify: “each adjacent pair” means all but the end…
Yoshimoto Friends
Here’s a happy little film starring two Yoshimoto cubes, by Justin Lanier and Paul Salomon of Math Munch. Enjoy! [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZi5FhAwFgI]
Hyperbolic Hyperbolic Hyperbolic: Daina Taimina at the DUMBO Arts Festival 2013
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…
Ian Stewart on The Life Scientific
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…