Ingrid Daubechies, president of the International Mathematical Union, has been made a baroness by the King of Belgium. Source: UREM, Faveurs nobiliaires du Royaume de Belgique
The London Pie
EDF Energy, one of the pantheon of Olympics sponsors, has opted to share its love for energy through its ‘Energy of the Nation’ project, launched earlier this week. By monitoring the nation’s positive and negative ‘energy’, by which they mean ‘things they are saying on Twitter’, they’ll turn the London Eye into a giant pie…
EngageU Recognition of Distinction for Maths Busking
The Maths Busking project recently won a Recognition of Distinction at the EngageU awards. As one of the Maths Busking team, I’d like to shout about this, so here’s a quick interview I had with the project’s director Sara Santos about the award and the project. What is Maths Busking? Sara: Maths Busking is a…
Math/Maths 105: Dolphins, Fruit flies & Lizard-inspired Robots
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: approximate number sense – in humans and bred into fruit flies; Dolphins Appear to do Nonlinear Mathematics; What does the way you count on your fingers say…
Insect numeracy standards overtake KS2
In what must surely now be described as a classic maths news item, yet another species of animal has joined the ranks of things which can determine rank. This time it’s the humble fruit fly’s turn to tap its hoof the correct number of times, as these articles in The Metro and Nature (the two…
Reframe
Reframe by Adam Scales, Pierre Berthelomeau, Paul van den Berg.
Capula Expanded Dodecahedron by Pedro Reyes
Capula Expanded Dodecahedron, by Pedro Reyes