The Mathematics of Change is a comic monologue about a Princeton freshman studying mathematics, performed by ‘acclaimed comic monologuist Josh Kornbluth‘. According to Wikipedia, the monologue ‘describes how despite a love for mathematics he “hit the wall” in his freshman classes at Princeton’ and ‘draws parallels between calculus and life’. Ha – parallels. Good one. From…
Peter Rowlett interviewed on mathblogging.org
Having featured interviews with two of our three editors in the past (see: Christian P here and Katie here), the lovely people at mathblogging.org have now completed the set and this week feature an interview with “the Bill Bryson of mathematics” (source: overheard at the Maths Jam conference), our own Peter Rowlett. Why and when…
Carnival of Mathematics 93
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of November, is now online at X in Vogue. 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.
Recreational Maths Seminar – Seven Staggering Sequences
Yesterday I hosted another recreational maths seminar on Google+. I had a lot of fun! We discussed the paper, Seven Staggering Sequences (PDF), by Neil Sloane. In the paper Sloane, the man behind the fantastic Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, described seven of the sequences he found most especially interesting. The Hangout was just under an…
New York Museum of Mathematics opening weekend tickets now on sale
UK-based fans of the proposed UK Maths Museum will be exceedingly jealous to hear that New York’s mathematical visitor attraction, MoMath (the National Museum of Mathematics), is opening this month. Their opening weekend is 15th-16th December, and tickets are now on sale if you want to attend either day to take in their exhibits and activities.…
Puzzlebomb – December 2012
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 12 of Puzzlebomb, for December 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 12 – December 2012 The solutions to Issue 12 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 12 – December 2012 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Math/Maths 122: Subliminal Mathematics
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: Advent at Plus and Numberphile; Math Shows Penguins Only Care About Themselves; What Willy Loman Could Learn From the Birds and Bees; Mathematical Counseling for All Who…