Henry Segerman is a mathematician at the University of Melbourne with a keen interest in 3d-printing mathematical shapes. He’s just uploaded a video showing off his latest creation, a 30-cell burr puzzle created in collaboration with Saul Schleimer: [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJwqT_sbB_A] Pretty cool, eh? As well as providing a PDF describing the puzzle, Henry’s uploaded the…
Probabilitelly
On the 18th of October BBC Four is going to broadcast a programme called Tails You Win: The Science of Chance, presented by Prof David Spiegelhalter, as part of its Big Science series. Here’s the BBC’s description: Smart and witty, jam-packed with augmented-reality graphics and fascinating history, this film, presented by Professor David Spiegelhalter, tries to…
Proof News
Here’s a little catch-up with the status of the claimed proofs of some big statements that were announced recently. At the end of August, Shin Mochizuki released what he claims is a proof of the abc conjecture (link goes to a PDF). Barring someone spotting a huge error, it’s going to take a long time to…
Math/Maths 115: Isaac Newton’s Death (mask)
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. Peter battles freshers’ flu and Samuel tries to resist boasting about Relatively Prime long enough to talk about: Proofs for the Goldbach conjecture and the Riemann hypothesis?: Possible Problem with ABC proof; What happened…
IMA Early Career Mathematicians’ Conference Autumn 2012
I am to Chair the next Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Early Career Mathematicians’ Conference, on Saturday 24 November 2012 at the University of Greenwich. As this gets closer I am getting pretty excited to be running this and I am proud of what we have arranged. I have just posted the schedule for…
Manchester Science Festival Blog – Matt Parker’s Domino Computer
In case you weren’t already excited enough about Matt Parker’s Domino Computer (see: Math/Maths Episode 112, and articles on this website), the Manchester Science Festival blog has posted an official press release about the event, including photos of the domino assembly team lying around on the floor (none of us are professional models, but we did…
Puzzlebomb – October 2012
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 10 of Puzzlebomb, for October 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 10 – October 2012 The solutions to Issue 10 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 10 – October 2012 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.