(At last month’s big MathsJam conference, we asked a few people who gave particularly interesting talks if they’d like to write something for the site. A surprising number said yes. First to arrive in the submissions pile was this piece by Tom Button.) The formula for the surface area of a sphere, $A=4\pi r^{2}$, is…
Come and see me record a brand new radio show about economics! dlvr.it/2YZlv6 — Tim Harford (@TimHarford) November 29, 2012 Fans of Tim Harford and his work on BBC Radio 4’s More or Less will be excited to learn he’s doing a new radio show about economics. In this post on his blog, he explains…
I’ve written up my souvenirs of this month’s Newcastle MathsJam over on my mathem-o-blog.
STYN by Sam van Doorn. Parabolae galore! via Colossal
There was no Recreational Maths Seminar last Sunday because I had a confluence of work, family stuff and overknackeredness from MathsJam the week before. The coming weekend should be considerably less busy, so let’s have our second seminar this Sunday, the second of December, at 7pm GMT. That’s 2pm EST (New York), 11am PST(California) and 6am EDT (Eastern Australia, on…
The Guardian is reporting that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is to trawl social networks for intelligence. The Cheltenham-based organisation is recruiting maths, physics and computing experts to devise groundbreaking algorithms that will automatically extract information from huge volumes of speech, text and image content gathered “across the full range of modern communications media”. Read…
Steven Strogatz has written a book based on his series of columns for the New York Times, The Elements of Math. The book’s called The Joy of $x$, and Steven’s recorded a trailer for it. I bet he hopes the trailer will convince you to buy the book. [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPttaSg8ySc]