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…
Radii of polyhedra
(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…
Watch Tim Harford recording a new radio show about economics for the BBC
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…
Newcastle MathsJam November 2012 Recap
I’ve written up my souvenirs of this month’s Newcastle MathsJam over on my mathem-o-blog.