The London Mathematical Society will be 150 years old in a couple of years, and we mathematicians always bang on about how maths takes a long time to have impact in the wider world, so they’re asking for examples of maths done in the last 150 years that’s had an impact outside academia. Read more…
Who loves data? If we’re talking about the android from Star Trek: TNG, then I do, and if we’re talking about the thing that’s not the plural of anecdotes, then I’m pretty sure the answer is everyone. If you love data, then you’ll definitely love visualising data, and Google have teamed up with the Open…
Yikes! Even with our hard-working new team of News Team news teamsters chopping away at it admirably, our news queue has grown faster than we can deal with. That means it’s time for another bullet list of news! The first edition of the IMA’s new journal Information and Inference (announced previously) came out last December, and everything’s…
A piece on the New York Times Economix blog casts a story from Inside Higher Ed as a piece of applied game theory. Professor Peter Fröhlich of Johns Hopkins University has a grading system in which each class’s highest grade on the final counts as an A, with all other scores adjusted accordingly. So if…
[youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S530Vwa33G0] A mesmerising tour through fractal space. Switch to fullscreen HD if you can. Created with Mandelbulb3D via Steven Wittens on Google+
A couple of weeks ago, our chums slash competitors ((Not really, they’re just chums.)) at mathblogging.org relaunched their website. They’re now using the much fancier ScienceSeeker.org software and it looks really good.
Since it’s Pi Day in March, and ridiculously there are still people who haven’t spurned π completely in favour of τ, maths/media pixie Marcus Du Sautoy is running a free online event, called Pi Day Live (hashtag: #pidaylive). Since everything is more exciting when it’s happening LIVE, actually and IN REALITY, they’ll be conducting a live…