Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 11 of Puzzlebomb, for November 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 11 – November 2012 The solutions to Issue 11 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 11 – November 2012 – solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Math/Maths 119: Those Boffins, and their Science
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: Sandy; L’Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter; In defense of Nate Silver – and basic math; Fear of Math can Hurt; Maths and nature link…
Recreational Maths Seminar next Sunday at 7pm GMT
Having gathered a few data points about people’s availability for the recreational maths seminar, and heavily weighted towards my own, it looks like weekend evenings are the most convenient times for everyone to get together for the recreational maths seminar. So, let’s say 7pm GMT on Sunday evening, the 11th of November. That’s 2pm EST…
Maths Careers Poster Competition 2012/2013
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 of the planet Earth, to join in with the Mathematics of Planet Earth year 2013. UK students between the ages of 11 and 19 are invited to submit…
Newcastle MathsJam October 2012 Recap
I’ve posted my recollections of what happened at last month’s Newcastle MathsJam over at my mathem-o-blog.
Walking on π in the NSF Visualization Challenge
Fran Aragón Artacho has emailed to tell us that he and Jon Borwein have entered their image of a walk on the first 100 billion digits of π in the National Science Foundation (of the USA)’s International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Fran says: Jon Borwein and I have submitted our picture of a walk based…
Follow Friday, 2/11/12
Since the date is palindromic, and the weekday starts with an F, it’s time for another instalment of Follow Friday! Here’s some people I recommend following if you’re on Twitter, and some enjoyable tweets/links for you to look at if not.