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: A clue to solving Kryptos; The Game of Life: The Play; The Bletchley Circle; Mathalicious: the Video Series; Geogebra for the iPad Kickstarter; Math Requires Crosstalk in…
Video interview show with the researchers behind the science & maths news
Samuel Hansen has started a new initiative. ACMEScience News Now offers video interviews with researchers involved in new science and mathematics research. In the first episode Samuel talks to Paul Hines of the University of Vermont about his research into using crowdsourcing to not only answer scientific questions, but also to help determine what those…
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Ada Lovelace Day Live!
Ada Lovelace Day Live! is “an evening of fun, inspiration and robots” in London in October. The website offers this description: Join Helen Arney, Dr Suzie Sheehy, Gia Milinovich, Dr Helen Scales, Helen Keen, Dr Alice Bell, Sarah Angliss and Sydney Padua for an entertaining evening of science, technology, comedy and song on Ada Lovelace…
11-category Venn diagram drawn
Little known fact: some sized Venn Diagrams have never been drawn. In case you missed it when it whipped round Twitter a few weeks ago: it looks like someone finally cracked the 11-Venn diagram, and it’s a cracker!
Information and Inference: new journal with free content for two years
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications has launched a new journal, Information and Inference: a Journal of the IMA. This aims to publish high quality mathematically-oriented articles, furthering the understanding of the theory, methods of analysis, and algorithms for information and data. Articles should be written in a way accessible to researchers in the associated…
A clue to deciphering Kryptos
You may be aware of Kryptos, the sculpture covered in enciphered text and located outside CIA headquarters (and so not accessible to the general public). Three of the four messages on the sculpture have been decrypted, but the fourth remained obscured. Now the Telegraph reports that the sculptor, Jim Sanborn, who is apparently surprised that…