2013 will be the first year since 1987 in which all digits are different from one-another. — The QI Elves (@qikipedia) December 31, 2012 In case you were bored of hearing that amazing ‘mathematical’ fact number coincidence, don’t worry – 2013 is mathematical for other reasons. Even though we’ve run out of Alan Turing Centenary…
Carnival of Mathematics 94
Welcome to the 94th Carnival of Mathematics! This month the carnival has once again trundled in to Blackboard Bold at the Aperiodical, though this time with myself rather than Katie at the helm (carnivals have helms).
Möbius house
Since the Möbius band is such a cool object, it follows that anything made from a Möbius band or in the shape of a Möbius band is therefore also supercool. Also: the bigger, the better. So how about a Möbius house? Korean architects Planning Korea have come up with a scale model and computer generated…
Dancing shapes by Carlo Vega
[vimeo url=http://vimeo.com/56524400] Inspired by the great Geometry Daily blog.
AS maths results and batting averages
Phil Harvey gave a talk on this subject at last November’s MathsJam conference. We liked it so much, we asked him if we could put it on the site. Phil’s kindly written his talk up as an essay for us. I am 64¼ years old and I’ve been a maths teacher all my working life.…
Not mentioned on The Aperiodical last year
Here’s a quick round-up of some news stories from the tail end of 2012 that we characteristically failed to write up!
Aperiodical Round Up 8: if a bird heard the word ‘surd’
Right, let’s be havin’ ya! My name’s Christian Perfect, I’ve got some links, and you’ve got some eyes. Aperiodical Round Up 8, arriving later than scheduled at Platform Your Face.