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…
Insect numeracy standards overtake KS2
In what must surely now be described as a classic maths news item, yet another species of animal has joined the ranks of things which can determine rank. This time it’s the humble fruit fly’s turn to tap its hoof the correct number of times, as these articles in The Metro and Nature (the two…
Reframe
Reframe by Adam Scales, Pierre Berthelomeau, Paul van den Berg.
Capula Expanded Dodecahedron by Pedro Reyes
Capula Expanded Dodecahedron, by Pedro Reyes
London Mathematical Society Prizes 2012
The London Mathematical Society has announced the recipients of its prizes, to be presented at the Society’s AGM in November.
Numberphile
Anyone who hasn’t yet spotted the YouTube channel Numberphile (call yourself a maths fan?) would do well to check out its amazing selection of videos, all loosely themed around numbers – not all of which are integers, either – but now edging on giving up on that pretence and just continuing to post videos about…
Flatland2: Sphereland to be shown at MathFest
Sphereland, a follow-up to the the animated adaptation of the classic hit-literature-with-a-maths-hammer book Flatland, is to be shown at MAA MathFest in Madison, WI.