Those who know things have known for a while that if you put simple-ish sums like sqrt(4^2+3^2) into Google, it’ll calculate the answer for you. Well, they’ve made life a little bit easier now with the addition of a set of scientific calculator buttons that appear whenever you enter a sum. Oddly, you can only…
This month we had two new attendees, as well as some regulars. We talked about lots of different things, although one recurring theme was the Crisp Tube Enigma machine, which we were using to send coded messages to Newcastle MathsJam. There will shortly be a video chronicling our achievements, and I’ll post a link to…
Brooklyn Integers is “an independently owned and operated integer-as-a-service provider. All integers are hand-crafted and guaranteed to be unique and hella-beautiful”.
Ingrid Daubechies, president of the International Mathematical Union, has been made a baroness by the King of Belgium. Source: UREM, Faveurs nobiliaires du Royaume de Belgique
EDF Energy, one of the pantheon of Olympics sponsors, has opted to share its love for energy through its ‘Energy of the Nation’ project, launched earlier this week. By monitoring the nation’s positive and negative ‘energy’, by which they mean ‘things they are saying on Twitter’, they’ll turn the London Eye into a giant pie…
The Maths Busking project recently won a Recognition of Distinction at the EngageU awards. As one of the Maths Busking team, I’d like to shout about this, so here’s a quick interview I had with the project’s director Sara Santos about the award and the project. What is Maths Busking? Sara: Maths Busking is a…
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: approximate number sense – in humans and bred into fruit flies; Dolphins Appear to do Nonlinear Mathematics; What does the way you count on your fingers say…