I’m hijacking Katie’s newly-instituted series of posts about who to follow on Twitter with a post about who to follow on Google+. Google+ famously has almost nobody on it. If anyone knows the potential for really interesting exceptions to the word “almost”, it’s mathematicians, so by that mad logic there should be some really interesting…
Aperiodicity fans, Neil and Heath need your help! Help in the form of money. Don’t worry, you’ll get something cool out of it – a set of dart/kite Penrose tiling fridge magnets. There isn’t much more to it than that. It’s a pretty simple idea, they’re just asking for $5000 to get metal dies made…
I had a spare day yesterday so, rather than clean my house, I made a model of the SKI combinator calculus out of a pizza box. [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQMmgElRMI]
Everyone’s favourite source of excellent maths activities for all ages, NRICH, has been inspired by our change of font and has redesigned their site. It is still full of excellent ideas and teaching resources, as well as puzzles and games. Fans of rounded rectangles will especially like the slick new design and easy-to-use sections for…
I’ve just installed the Computer Modern fonts here, to make the site look that little bit more mathsy. We’re using Computer Modern Concrete for headers and Computer Modern Bright (aka the Beamer font) for the rest of the text. What do you think? Does it look OK? Have you had any problems with fonts not…
Get ready to smile! [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Xq4OX7beU] via Elin Roberts on Twitter
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.