As fans of maths, you’ll all be pleased to hear that in Ireland, they’ve basically got the correct attitude to maths, which is to say they dedicate a whole $\frac{1}{52}$ of their time to it. That’s right, they have an annual Maths Week, now in its ninth year, during which events are organised all over…
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Happy birthday ((Yesterday. Sorry about the delay – the mgmt)), Évariste Galois (25 Oct 1811- 31 May 1832) “Liberté Toujours” [Image conceived by Card Colm Mulcahy, realized by Dan Bascelli] 201 years old now, but you don’t look a day over 20. One of a very select group. Never one of the pack. Galois biographies…
Exactly six months ago, we launched The Aperiodical. Since then, we’ve published 523 posts to 115,000 visitors; been slashdotted, Hacker Newsed, and reddited; mentioned on Radio 4; got to the bottom of a mystery; been inordinately proud of a new set of fonts; published pieces by 11 guest authors; and laughed all the way to…
Şakir has made many pieces which are pleasing to the mathematical eye. There’s plenty to see on his site.
In David Spiegelhalter’s excellent programme on risk, Tails You Win: The Science of Chance, we heard about the classic case of Michael Fish failing to predict the 1987 hurricane, and about the difficulty of predicting such events. Another area where precise prediction is extremely difficult is earthquakes. Today the BBC are reporting that “six Italian…
Here’s another episode of our irregular podcast about what’s been happening on the site. This time, we talked about: Advances in pure nonsense Robert Schneider, Mathematical Musician/Musical Mathematician #MTT2K: Teachers critique Khan Academy Surds: what are they good for? Calculus of the Nervous System The new fonts on the site Christian’s new Aperiodical Round Up…