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…
Ri grants for UK schools mathematics enrichment activity
The Royal Institution of Great Britain are offering 72 grants of up to £500 for schools for mathematics enrichment activity. These are available to UK teachers of mathematics to primary or secondary aged pupils to support activities from the STEM Directories, a list of enrichment schemes, in the 2012-2013 academic year. ‘Enrichment’ is activity that is…
Game of Life: a play
A new play called Game of Life is to be performed from 5th-22nd September at The Yard in Hackney Wick in London. It will apparently “bring to life a scientific theory: the phenomenon of ‘emergence’, and Conway’s ‘game of life’ — an elegant mathematical model simulating birth, death and survival”.