Mathematical niche-filling news: a few model and set theorists have got together to start a new shared blog “on that hard to define area that is perhaps 80% Model Theory and 20% Set Theory”. It’s wittily called fff, short for Forking, Forcing and back&Forthing ((Reminds me of the old joke a biologist told me: “the hyptothalamus…
Mathagogy: two-minute mathematics education
In ‘asking people on the internet to do things for you’ news: mathagogy.com is asking for submissions from teachers of two-minute videos, describing how they would approach teaching a particular aspect of mathematics. Peps Mccrea makes the pitch in this positively fleeting 69 second video: [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVXyrFQY4dk] Submit a video at mathagogy.com via Johnathan Gregg on Twitter
Girih patterns by Joe Bartholomew
“Bounded gaps between primes” by Yitang Zhang now available
To complete the story started as a rumour report in ‘Primes gotta stick together‘ and confirmed in ‘Primes really do stick together‘, here we report that Annals of Mathematics has posted the PDF of ‘Bounded gaps between primes‘ by Yitang Zhang on its ‘to appear in forthcoming issues’ page. After the seminar on 13th May,…
Cream(t)
This just in! Important research from mathematicians at the university of Sheffield (in particular, category theorist Eugenia Cheng) has determined the correct proportions of jam and cream to use when creating a jam and cream scone. As the Aperiodical’s cake correspondent, my duty is to report these significant results.
Elsevier one year on: “essentially nothing has changed”
A new post on Gowers’s Weblog gives, with permission, a letter of resignation from the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Number Theory sent by Greg Martin. Gowers promises that the letter makes “interesting reading”, and he’s right. Martin points out that it has been over a year since the Elsevier boycott began (covered on…
Integer sequence review: A000959
The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences contains over 200,000 sequences. It contains classics, curios, thousands of derivatives entered purely for completeness’s sake, short sequences whose completion would be a huge mathematical achievement, and some entries which are just downright silly. For a lark, David and I have decided to review some of the Encyclopedia’s sequences.…