Every year, Princeton University Press gathers together a small anthology of the best writing on mathematics from the past 12 months. The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 was released last week. Now that Princeton’s web servers have been dried out after Hurricane Sandy’s visit, I can give you its blurb: This annual anthology brings together…
At what can only be described as far too regular an interval for such things, it’s another Follow Friday! Here’s who you should be getting in line behind people to follow this week, as well as some of their recent interesting links.
You may remember that The Aperiodical’s own Katie Steckles was interviewed on mathblogging.org’s Mathematical Instruments. Now it is the turn of Christian Perfect. Why and when did Christian start blogging? What does he read every day? Find out in ‘Mathematical Instruments: cp’s mathem-o-blog‘.
The Mathematical Association of America asked its Facebook fans to send in pictures of their mathematical pumpkins. They answered the call admirably! You can see the pictures at the MAA’s Facebook page. I particularly like the honeycomb one.
Tim Locke displayed his geometric metalwork at the 2012 Bridges conference. via Mr Honner
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 11 of Puzzlebomb, for November 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 11 – November 2012 The solutions to Issue 11 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 11 – November 2012 – solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
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: Sandy; L’Aquila quake: Italy scientists found guilty of manslaughter; In defense of Nate Silver – and basic math; Fear of Math can Hurt; Maths and nature link…