Brandon Wilson is drawing a logo for a number each day this year. He started at 0 on the first of January, and he’ll finish with 365 on the first of January 2014 (or with 364 on the 31st of December. Not sure.) Sadly that means 367 – the largest number whose square’s digits form…
I have moved my blog Travels in a Mathematical World to The Aperiodical!
It’s a repeat booking for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd in number 4 (or 16 if you belong to Team All Squared) of our podcast. Standup mathematician Matt Parker joined us to talk about interesting coincidences. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of March, is now online at Flying Colours Maths. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For more information about the Carnival of Mathematics, click here.
Cambridge News is reporting that “maths whizz” and Cambridge maths masters graduate ((I particularly like how Click Liverpool has: “A “Master of Maths” has developed a formula…” as though “Master of Maths” is a made up thing.)) William Hartston has devised a system for predicting the winner at the Grand National on Saturday. Apparently he…
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 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.