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Factor Conga
Quite a few designery visualisations of the prime numbers have been put out on the web recently, to varying degrees of success. Most of the time they look pretty but don’t tell you very much; the most recent example I can think of is El Patrón de los Números Primos by Jason Davies. A few weeks ago…
Interesting Esoterica Spooky Halloween Edition
Today is Halloween, the day when skeletons and spooks and statisticians ((While The Aperiodical is an equal opportunity employer, the author maintains a legitimate fear of “approximate counting”)) roam the earth to wreak their awful revenge on the innocent. Maths has a habit of borrowing peculiar words from the vernacular, so I thought I’d go…
Land of the Rising Sums by Alex Bellos on Radio 4
You’ll probably want to listen to this programme presented by Alex Bellos. Alex Bellos visits Japan, on a quest to discover why Asian cultures seem so much better at maths and numbers than many western countries. He looks at the cultural difference in the Japanese approach to numbers and asks whether there is something fundamental…
Martin Gardner celebration week in Nottingham
Last Sunday saw the anniversary of the birth of Martin Gardner, and as a celebration, the Gathering for Gardner people planned a world-wide party ‘G4G Celebration of Mind‘. It happened to be Maths Jam night on Tuesday, so we put the Nottingham Maths Jam on the G4G-COM map. Then on Friday three of us had…
Math/Maths 118: An 11.5 microhertz Domputer
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 couldn’t speak but Peter spoke to Matt Parker and Katie Steckles about the Domputer, an attempt to build a computer from 10,000 dominoes at the Manchester Science Festival. Get…
National Numeracy Challenge for working adults
A new ((Relatively new, they were launched in March.)) charity called National Numeracy has launched a campaign to produce a positive transformation of public attitudes to numeracy and mathematics in the UK, to create an “I can do maths” approach and to raise the numeracy skills of at least 500,000 adults of working age to…