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: Nate Silver’s victory in the US election; some stuff you should go to in the next two weeks; changes to A-levels, ban on calculators in tests for…
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012
Every year, Princeton University Press gathers together a small anthology of the best writing on mathematics from the past 12 months. The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 was released last week. Now that Princeton’s web servers have been dried out after Hurricane Sandy’s visit, I can give you its blurb: This annual anthology brings together…
Follow Friday, 9/11/12
At what can only be described as far too regular an interval for such things, it’s another Follow Friday! Here’s who you should be getting in line behind people to follow this week, as well as some of their recent interesting links.
Christian Perfect interviewed on mathblogging.org
You may remember that The Aperiodical’s own Katie Steckles was interviewed on mathblogging.org’s Mathematical Instruments. Now it is the turn of Christian Perfect. Why and when did Christian start blogging? What does he read every day? Find out in ‘Mathematical Instruments: cp’s mathem-o-blog‘.
MAA Mathematical Pumpkins
The Mathematical Association of America asked its Facebook fans to send in pictures of their mathematical pumpkins. They answered the call admirably! You can see the pictures at the MAA’s Facebook page. I particularly like the honeycomb one.
Starburst by Tim Locke
Tim Locke displayed his geometric metalwork at the 2012 Bridges conference. via Mr Honner