Whoah there, traveller! Time for a break. Unhitch your wagon from the locomotive of Progress and roll into the railway siding of Idle Curiosity. I’ve got some more interesting esoterica for you. In case you’re new to this: every now and then I encounter a paper or a book or an article that grabs my interest…
Tip-top maths blog review site mathblogging.org has been running a series of interviews with maths bloggers. I think all three of the Aperiodical triumvirate have taken part, but Katie’s answers were published today. She said some things that made me feel unexpectedly positive about this site, so I’m happy. I’m sure mine and Peter’s responses will…
With nonmonotonic irregularity, it’s time for another Follow Friday – a round up of the maths people on Twitter you should be following, or at least some fun links you can look at.
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of September, is now online at Matheminutes. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. For more information about the Carnival of Mathematics, click here.
PRIMES, it turns out, isn’t just a word for numbers without any proper factors – it’s also a mentoring programme for high school students in the USA, based at MIT. The students visit there once a week from February to May, and work with academics on real research. They also run similar programmes for computer…
Henry Segerman is a mathematician at the University of Melbourne with a keen interest in 3d-printing mathematical shapes. He’s just uploaded a video showing off his latest creation, a 30-cell burr puzzle created in collaboration with Saul Schleimer: [youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJwqT_sbB_A] Pretty cool, eh? As well as providing a PDF describing the puzzle, Henry’s uploaded the…
On the 18th of October BBC Four is going to broadcast a programme called Tails You Win: The Science of Chance, presented by Prof David Spiegelhalter, as part of its Big Science series. Here’s the BBC’s description: Smart and witty, jam-packed with augmented-reality graphics and fascinating history, this film, presented by Professor David Spiegelhalter, tries to…