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…
Like in a Dream, by Jérémie Brunet
[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+
The New Mathblogging.org
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.
Pi day live, starring Marcus du Sautoy
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…
Big Data Week
Anyone who’s a fan of data and bigness will be pleased to hear that 22-28 April is going to be Big Data Week. This ‘global festival of data’ will take place in participating cities all over the world, including London, Sydney, Barcelona, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Chicago and Utrecht (we only have a MathsJam in one of…
Principia Mathematica – THE MUSICAL
Principia Mathematica is Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead’s epic maths text which outlines the foundations of mathematics and logic, famously proves that 1+1=2 in 200 pages, and took so much re-writing it nearly sent them both mad in the process. It was also a hugely significant work, attempting to describe a set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic from…
Foldable Dodecahedron Calendar made in LaTeX
If anyone still hasn’t sorted themselves out with a calendar for 2013 – come on people, it’s February! – there’s a nice example of one here. It’s a dodecahedron which, once assembled, you can presumably orient to display the correct month (or the incorrect month, if you’re an impish sort). The best thing about it…