The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of November, is now online at Maths Fact. The post is in Spanish, but can be translated into English using Google Translate. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For…
International Year of Statistics Video Contest
In case you’d already forgotten, 2013 is the International Year of Statistics (I had; turns out Katie told us about it just after the New Year). One of the many activities going on is a video contest sponsored by the publishers Wiley. Take it away, Wiley! We invite videos of four minutes in length or…
Rock Paper Squiggles
We’ve seen non-transitive dice, and we’ve had cellular automata coming out of our ears (and proceeding deterministically). Now, this: [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4cV0nCIZoc] A post by the CA’s creator describes in more detail what’s going on, although essentially the idea is that red, green and blue are able to destroy each other in a similar way to…
BSA STEM Poster Competition – Mission to Mars
Following on from the Maths Careers website’s ‘Mathematics of Planet Earth’ poster competition, I’m going on the assumptions that 1. everyone loves poster competitions, and 2. if they’re related somehow to a particular planet, that’s even better. The Manchester branch of the British Science Association is running a competition to design a poster around a…
Éditions Hermann donates its Bourbaki archives to the Bibliothèque nationale de France
A collection of material pertaining to Nicolas Bourbaki, author of the famous Elements of Mathematics, has been donated to the French national library by his publisher, éditions Hermann. Bourbaki set out to reframe modern maths in terms of set theory, to give the subject a coherence that would lead to more rigour and cross-application of results. The…
Puzzlebomb – February 2013
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 14 of Puzzlebomb, for February 2013, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 14 – February 2013 The solutions to Issue 14 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 14 – February 2013 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Winners announced: Maths Careers Maths of Planet Earth 2013 Poster Competition
You may remember that the Maths Careers website ran a poster competition on the theme Maths of Planet Earth. We reported on this back in November, and said: The IMA’s Maths Careers campaign runs a yearly competition for posters illustrating applications of maths. Entry for the 2012/13 competition has opened, and it’s on the theme…