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.
Surds: what are they good for?
Here is a question I was asked: Why is rearranging equations containing square roots on the curriculum for GCSE? What might it be useful for in later life? This is a two-part question, one part of which is dynamite. When I put the question to Twitter, Paul Taylor @aPaulTaylor was the first to take the…
Math/Maths 114: Relatively Prime taster – Chinook
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. Due to non-intersecting availability, this week Samuel presents a short podcast alone. He talks about what’s probably been in the news; he gives a taster of the upcoming third episode of Relatively Prime, Chinook:…
Elsevier has made lots more maths articles free to access
Elsevier has just announced in its third open letter to the mathematics community (how much does that sound like a Papal Bull?) that all of the archived material from its “primary mathematics journals” is now free to access. This completes the process begun in April, when they made everything published after 1995 and before 2008 free. From…