Samuel Hansen is a busy man. As well as finishing off Relatively Prime, he’s continually making up new ideas for podcasts. His latest effort is ACMEScience NEWS NOW ((yes, the title has more capitals than a particularly pillarific Medieval cathedral, but that seems to be the way Sam is doing things)), a series of video interviews…
It’s Imminently Time For Relatively Prime
Long-standing chum of The Aperiodical, Samuel Hansen, has been spending the past year travelling round the world recording interviews and collecting audio for an ambitious series of programs about maths called Relatively Prime: Stories from the mathematical domain. The first episode will be released next Monday. Sam’s written a nice long press release explaining what the…
Number Gossip is back!
Just over a month ago I posted that Number Gossip had been killed. Well, It looks like Number Gossip is back, as gossipy and numerate as ever. Tanya hasn’t announced anything on her blog yet, so I thought a quick public-service note was in order.
Math/Maths 111: A Domino Computer on a Penrose Tiling
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: Making Heisenberg more Certain; Matt Parker’s domino computer challenge; Turing Machine on a Penrose tiling automata; Bletchley Park Bombe hut restoration; Turing Monopoly; Measuring Women’s Progress in…
Aperiodcast – 09/09/2012
Leaves are falling, a chilly wind is blowing and I can hear the distant thunder of undergrads’ hooves as they stampede towards my department. Yes, Summer is giving way to Autumn, so it’s time for another Aperiodcast. If you had “42 days” in the “when will the next Aperiodcast appear” sweepstake, report to the comments…
Puzzlebomb – September 2012
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…