Ada Lovelace Day Live! is “an evening of fun, inspiration and robots” in London in October. The website offers this description: Join Helen Arney, Dr Suzie Sheehy, Gia Milinovich, Dr Helen Scales, Helen Keen, Dr Alice Bell, Sarah Angliss and Sydney Padua for an entertaining evening of science, technology, comedy and song on Ada Lovelace…
11-category Venn diagram drawn
Little known fact: some sized Venn Diagrams have never been drawn. In case you missed it when it whipped round Twitter a few weeks ago: it looks like someone finally cracked the 11-Venn diagram, and it’s a cracker!
Information and Inference: new journal with free content for two years
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications has launched a new journal, Information and Inference: a Journal of the IMA. This aims to publish high quality mathematically-oriented articles, furthering the understanding of the theory, methods of analysis, and algorithms for information and data. Articles should be written in a way accessible to researchers in the associated…
A clue to deciphering Kryptos
You may be aware of Kryptos, the sculpture covered in enciphered text and located outside CIA headquarters (and so not accessible to the general public). Three of the four messages on the sculpture have been decrypted, but the fourth remained obscured. Now the Telegraph reports that the sculptor, Jim Sanborn, who is apparently surprised that…
Maths and Paralympic Sport in Plus magazine
Apparently there’s a parallel Olympics taking place in series with the Olympics in London. Having done such an excellent job so far this summer, the Millennium Mathematics Project is continuing its coverage from a mathematical angle, with the Plus Paralympic calendar and the special project Maths and Sport: Countdown to the Games. For example, John…
A trailer for Keith Devlin’s Intro to Mathematical Thinking MOOC
Keith Devlin has recorded a 3-minute video advertising his Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC on Coursera. In this, Keith explains the aims of the course, which includes elements seen previously on his MOOC Talk blog, and discusses the structure of the course and a little about the MOOC concept. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFs06zgBfMI According to a tweet from…
The Mathalicious weekly video series has launched
You may remember Math52, a Kickstarter project from Mathalicious which reached its goal in June. This promised, “every week for a year we’ll create a short video exploring a unique application of math in everyday life”. Now the Mathalicious video series has launched with two videos, both less than two minutes in length, available via…