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    Interesting Esoterica Summation

    Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 6

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 17, 2013

    Cor, it’s been longer than I thought since I last did one of these. I’ve been happily collecting esoterica for months, thinking I didn’t have enough new stuff to do a summation. It turns out I’ve got 22 new things! Better get cracking with the interest and the summing. In case you’re new to this: every…

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    Videos

    That Makes It Invertible! (by The Three Directions)

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 15, 2013

    Put a smile on your face this Friday morning. Here, straight out of Harvey Mudd College, are the Three Directions performing their new smash hit, That Makes It Invertible! [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4KCoNvRi6Y] via MetaFilter

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    All Squared

    All Squared, Number 3: As Easy As…

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Katie Steckles. Posted March 14, 2013

    Remember, remember, The fourteenth of March. While the previous number of All Squared failed to achieve topicality by appearing several weeks after the event it was about, this time we’ve hit the nail bang on the head with a podcast all about π day… on π day! We chatted to Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s Steve Mould about remembering π…

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    Arty Maths

    Karma by Do Ho Suh

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted March 11, 2013

    Karma by Ho Do Suh. via NotCot.org

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    Matheliebe exhibition in Liechtenstein

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted March 8, 2013

    Liechtenstein is a tiny, mountain-top country with the population of a medium-sized town and a football team routinely thrashed by everyone who encounters them (except for Scotland, of course). You’d be forgiven for thinking little ever happened there. But you’d be wrong! There is maths in Liechtenstein! The National Museum in Vaduz (page in German) is hosting…

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    Features

    Much ado About Noether

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect, Peter Rowlett and Katie Steckles. Posted March 8, 2013

    For International Women’s Day, we’ve written a short reminder of some the women who have contributed to the field of mathematics.

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    All Squared

    All Squared, Number 2 – Pancake formula

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Katie Steckles. Posted March 5, 2013

    Here’s the second edition of our new podcast, All Squared. This time we talked to Dr Andrew Taylor, PhD, about nonsense formulas in the news. In particular, since we recorded very close to pancake day, we took a close look at the various “formulas for the perfect pancake” printed in UK newspapers. Podcast: Play in new…

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