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.
Carnival of Mathematics 92
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of October, is now online at White Group Mathematics. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For more information about the Carnival of Mathematics, click here.
A recreational maths seminar?
Would you be interested in taking part in a sort of online video-chat seminar about recreational maths? Then read on!
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…