This month we had a few new faces, and plenty of regulars. We also had someone’s first MathsJam, and someone’s last (in the UK): Manchester regular Nicolette brought along her 6-week old baby Julia, who experienced her first recreational maths night in a pub, and by this time next month Nicolette will be back in…
Over on Google+, David Roberts just posted this trailer (via Антид Ото) to a lovely documentary about Julia Robinson and her contributions towards answering Hilbert’s tenth problem. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4x9XKNAYjU] David Hilbert’s tenth problem was to find an algorithm to solve diophantine equations, that is, to find roots of polynomials with integer coefficients. We now know that…
I have discovered, or perhaps learned how to articulate, something fundamental: I like explaining things. Allow me to explain.
Welcome to the 101st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics. The Aperiodical took over running the Carnival when it launched in April 2012, at Carnival 85. Although it’s conventional to celebrate round number anniversaries (and even though I’m left-handed), we decided for a combination of reasons not to make a big deal out of Carnival…
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.