Gradually, gradually, the mathematicians are taking over the world. Having already conquered (by which I mean ‘colonised pubs once a month’) in places as far-flung as Melbourne, Houston, Bombay and Edinburgh, MathsJam will be making its debut in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday February 19th.
Open Season – Singmaster’s Conjecture
Science and maths are all about finding things out. Mathematics in particular is about making statements, and then determining their truth (or falsity). Finding a proof, or disproof, of a mathematical theory can be as simple as finding a counterexample, or it can take hundreds of authors tens of thousands of pages. In this short…
Join the Aperiodical News Team
There’s too much maths news for us to cover, so we’re looking for a few volunteers to help out in our new News Team. A fairly big part of what this site is for is to cover mathematical news. We like to write short, to-the-point posts pointing to the relevant information about current events. These…
Geometric animated GIFs by Paolo Čerić
Paolo Čerić is an information processing student from Croatia. He’s developed a cool style of animated geometrical GIFs created using processing, which he posts on his Tumblr blog. via Colossal
Log-log! Who’s there? Not a power law!
This is a story about a particularly awful bit of science reporting. It’s taken me a while to sort out what’s going on. First I thought it was bad maths, then I thought it was bad science, and now I think it might be bad journalism. But it might be none, all, some, or a superset…
The invariant subspace problem is solved for Hilbert spaces?
Update 05/02/2013: Cowen and Gallardo say that a problem has been found in their proof and they no longer claim an answer to the invariant subspace problem. At the congress of la Real Sociedad Matemática Española yesterday, Eva Gallarda and Carl Cowen presented an affirmative answer to the invariant subspace problem on separable Hilbert spaces. While…
Submergence01 by Squidsoup
[vimeo url=http://vimeo.com/57412634] Submergence01, by Squidsoup. via NotCot.org