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…
I resign
I have had enough. My jealous “partners” on this site, Peter and Katie, have for too long refused to take seriously my VERY IMPORTANT mathematical ideas. I do not know if they are working for THEM and are trying to suppress my TRUTH-WORDS or if they are just too stupid-unenlightened to see the brilliance of my…
Largest prime discovered
Mark today in your diary because it’s turning out to be quite a day for revolutionary mathematical results. Hold on to your online credit card transactions, ladies and gentlemen, because Colin Beveridge, maths tutor and sometime Aperiodical contributor, has this morning published his discovery of the largest prime number. A prime number is a natural…
A simple proof that π is rational
The number $\pi$, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, long thought to be an irrational number and commonly written as 3.141, is found in many areas of mathematics and science and has been studied throughout the ages. The ubiquitous nature of $\pi$ makes it all the more surprising that the world wakes…