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…
Follow Friday
I’m hijacking Katie’s newly-instituted series of posts about who to follow on Twitter with a post about who to follow on Google+. Google+ famously has almost nobody on it. If anyone knows the potential for really interesting exceptions to the word “almost”, it’s mathematicians, so by that mad logic there should be some really interesting…
Penrose fridge magnets kickstarter
Aperiodicity fans, Neil and Heath need your help! Help in the form of money. Don’t worry, you’ll get something cool out of it – a set of dart/kite Penrose tiling fridge magnets. There isn’t much more to it than that. It’s a pretty simple idea, they’re just asking for $5000 to get metal dies made…
Cardboard SKI calculus
I had a spare day yesterday so, rather than clean my house, I made a model of the SKI combinator calculus out of a pizza box. [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQMmgElRMI]
NRICH Site has had a facelift
Everyone’s favourite source of excellent maths activities for all ages, NRICH, has been inspired by our change of font and has redesigned their site. It is still full of excellent ideas and teaching resources, as well as puzzles and games. Fans of rounded rectangles will especially like the slick new design and easy-to-use sections for…
New fonts on the site
I’ve just installed the Computer Modern fonts here, to make the site look that little bit more mathsy. We’re using Computer Modern Concrete for headers and Computer Modern Bright (aka the Beamer font) for the rest of the text. What do you think? Does it look OK? Have you had any problems with fonts not…
Zero Waste by Nick Sayers
Get ready to smile! [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Xq4OX7beU] via Elin Roberts on Twitter