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: Making Heisenberg more Certain; Matt Parker’s domino computer challenge; Turing Machine on a Penrose tiling automata; Bletchley Park Bombe hut restoration; Turing Monopoly; Measuring Women’s Progress in…
Aperiodcast – 09/09/2012
Leaves are falling, a chilly wind is blowing and I can hear the distant thunder of undergrads’ hooves as they stampede towards my department. Yes, Summer is giving way to Autumn, so it’s time for another Aperiodcast. If you had “42 days” in the “when will the next Aperiodcast appear” sweepstake, report to the comments…
Puzzlebomb – September 2012
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 9 of Puzzlebomb, for September 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 9 – September 2012 The solutions to Issue 9 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 9 – September 2012 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Knitting Escher patterns
Following on from our maths/knitting post earlier this month, we’ve found a knitting blog full of knitted MC Escher designs. The famously mathematical graphic artist MC Escher was king of tessellating designs with repeated fish, birds and other animals. Jana, who writes the blog in question, has taken on the formidable challenge of writing knitting…
Matt Parker needs help building a domino computer
Friend-in-good-standing of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker, has something big planned for Manchester Science Festival and he needs your help. Matt is trying to build a computer out of dominoes.
Geogebra for the iPad Kickstarter
GeoGebra is a surprisingly capable piece of free dynamic maths software, used widely by teachers and geometry aficionados. We haven’t discussed it here before, but people have created some really nice interactive tools with it, so we might do a round-up in the near future. Earlier in the year, the developers released an HTML5 version of GeoGebra,…
The Bletchley Circle: codebreaking thriller on ITV1
ITV will show a new period drama called The Bletchley Circle from Thursday 6th September at 9pm on ITV1. According to the Milton Keynes Citizen, the story “follows the lives of four fictional women whose brilliant work at Bletchley Park during WWII helped to smash codes used by the German military.” Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean are…