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…
News in brie(f)
“What’s that, boss?” “I said, look at this article on a conference about how maths is applied and write something full of puns.” “Cheesy puns?” “Attaboy.”
LMS Women in Mathematics Day
The London Mathematical Society has announced that this year’s Women In Mathematics Day will take place on April the 18th and 19th at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. It’s free for students and £5 on the door for everyone else. The event provides an opportunity to meet and talk with women who are active…
"Developing a Healthy Scepticism About Technology in Mathematics Teaching"
I have an article in the current issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (Vol 3, Issue 1). The title is Developing a Healthy Scepticism About Technology in Mathematics Teaching. This will be a chapter of my PhD thesis and provides some background context. I am following a model in which teaching draws on a…
MathsJam expands yet again
Gradually, gradually, the mathematicians are taking over the world. Having already conquered (by which I mean ‘colonised pubs once a month’) in places as far-flung as Melbourne, Houston, Bombay and Edinburgh, MathsJam will be making its debut in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday February 19th.
Open Season – Singmaster’s Conjecture
Science and maths are all about finding things out. Mathematics in particular is about making statements, and then determining their truth (or falsity). Finding a proof, or disproof, of a mathematical theory can be as simple as finding a counterexample, or it can take hundreds of authors tens of thousands of pages. In this short…