Tony Mann attended the Atiyah/Villani(/Stewart) event at Tate Modern yesterday and wrote a review of this for his blog. He discusses several interesting ideas from the discussions – “a few that resonated with me” – including on problem solving, history and the practice of doing mathematics in relation to art, barriers and the place of…
Internet Problem Solving Contest
The Internet Problem Solving Contest has just started. The Internet Problem Solving Contest (IPSC) is an online contest for teams consisting of up to three people. Several problems will be published at the beginning of the competition. Each problem consists of a problem description and two input data sets. To solve a problem you will…
More maths at Hay Festival
After plugging Marcus du Sautoy’s appearances at Hay Festival, it occurred to me that it would only be fair to mention the other mathematically-interesting events of the week.
Markov Chains avoid buses arriving in threes
The CNN reports on research which uses a Markov Chain model to avoid buses bunching, a phenomenon that’s a cliché of observational comedy and “happens when buses are thrown off schedule because of traffic, weather or too many passengers at one stop”.
EPSRC very quietly relents on maths funding
The EPSRC has silently updated its table of “areas in which fellowships are available” to include “intradisciplinary research” in mathematical sciences at all career stages. According to a post by Timothy Gowers on Google+, this “means in practice pretty much all of maths.”
Puzzlebomb – June 2012
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 6 of Puzzlebomb, for June 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 6 – June 2012 The solutions to Issue 6 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 6 – June 2012 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here.
Some Turing-related articles free to read for a short period of time, thanks to T&F
Taylor & Francis have generously made some articles related to Alan Turing from their archives freely available until the end of the year. They’re calling it the Alan Turing Centenary Collection, and it includes two reports written by Turing during the war, a few articles which they claim are “about Alan Turing”, and a 1978…