I’ve written up my recap of last week’s Newcastle MathsJam. We had some magic tricks, debated the application of game theory to the penal system, almost played a game of rhythmomachy, and of course we solved a few puzzles. Read my recap on my other mathem-o-blog.
Robert Schneider, Mathematical Musician/Musical Mathematician
(This article is based on an interview that was originally conducted for the podcast Relatively Prime) Robert Schneider is a rock star mathematician. I do not mean that in the metaphorical sense, as when it is applied, with a rather unmathematical lack of precision, to celebrity mathematicians such as Terry Tao, Cedric Villani, or Timothy…
Manchester MathsJam, September 2012
This month saw a record high turnout, requiring as many as three tables being pushed together, a whole bag of maltesers and a tin of shortbread someone got for Christmas and hadn’t eaten yet. We also had one new attendee who had previously been a regular at Newcastle MathsJam, and has now moved to Manchester…
"I’m not a mathematician, the maths I’m doing is really just basic modelling"
Last week I attended the first Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Employers’ Forum. The theme was ‘Employability of Mathematics Graduates’. This was an interesting event with many useful views and viewpoints on display. One speaker, talking about how mathematics student applicants to the graduate training scheme fare, mentioned that during the technical interview some…
Math/Maths 113: Boing! And Relatively Prime is Live
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: Relatively Prime is on the air and on boingboing; ABC now mainstream: in Telegraph and NY Times; Feit-Thompson totally checked by Coq Proof Assistant; Only in 3D…
Aperiodical Round Up 7: stamp of approval
Ladies and gentlemen, every now and then there comes a time when a man has gathered more maths links than he can comfortably hold on to and he is forced to loosen his grip, allowing the more wriggly ones a chance to slip away and make a break for freedom. On such occasions, the sticky…
Calculus of the Nervous System
Anyone who caught any of this summer’s BBC Proms may have noticed that in the midst of the World’s Greatest Classical Music Festival, someone managed to sneak in a bit of mathematics. Emily Howard, whose degree was in Mathematics and Computing at Oxford, has become a composer whose works are performed alongside Glinka and Shostakovich.…