It’s a repeat booking for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd in number 4 (or 16 if you belong to Team All Squared) of our podcast. Standup mathematician Matt Parker joined us to talk about interesting coincidences. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Carnival of Mathematics 97
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of March, is now online at Flying Colours Maths. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For more information about the Carnival of Mathematics, click here.
‘Maths whizz’ ‘predicts’ Grand National ‘winner’
Cambridge News is reporting that “maths whizz” and Cambridge maths masters graduate ((I particularly like how Click Liverpool has: “A “Master of Maths” has developed a formula…” as though “Master of Maths” is a made up thing.)) William Hartston has devised a system for predicting the winner at the Grand National on Saturday. Apparently he…
George E. P. Box (1919-2013)
March was a terribly sad month for the University of Wisconsin; just days after losing Mary Ellen Rudin, George E. P. Box also passed away. He was 93.
Puzzlebomb – April 2013
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 16 of Puzzlebomb, for April 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 16 – April 2013 The solutions to Issue 16 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 16 – April 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Pale imitations: newcomers in the Math/Maths Podcast hiatus
Since the start of the year, the Math/Maths Podcast has been on hiatus. I’m very much enjoying the extra thesis-writing time but apparently this has left some missing their regular mathematical listen. Not infrequently I get an email from someone wishing me well with my thesis and asking when we’ll be back podcasting. Well, nature…
Long-standing ‘Continuum Hypothesis’ disproved
After what has so far been an inexplicably fruitful morning of mathematical revelations, the mathematical world is now reeling after yet another long-standing mathematical question has been answered. While we are still reeling from the shock resignation of Aperiodical editor Christian Perfect, whose presence on the site will be sadly missed, our obligation is still…