The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May, is now online at Wild About Math!. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.
Maths at the Cheltenham Science Festival
Next week, scientists, science fans and science communicators will converge on Cheltenham town hall for a week of high-quality science festival. But how much of the programme is given over to the queen of all sciences, Mathematics? Here’s a list of some of the events going on we’d be interested in going to.
Four silly stories
Silly maths stories, like buses with a taxi sneaking into the bus lane behind them, come along four at a time, it seems. None of these stories merits being reported on here on its own, but we felt the fact that they all came to our attention so close to each other deserved recognition.
Puzzlebomb – June 2013
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 18 of Puzzlebomb, for June 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 18 – June 2013 The solutions to Issue 18 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 18 – June 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
A new model theory blog: Forking, Forcing and back&Forthing
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
