See for yourself with this inverse graphing calculator.
What’s the (implicit) equation for “equation”?
2012 Loebner Prize to be held at Bletchley Park & streamed online
The 2012 Loebner Prize competition (based on the Turing test) will be held at Bletchley Park. A Bletchley Park Trust press release explains the competition procedure: The judges at the competition will conduct conversations with the four finalist chatbots and with some human surrogates, and will then rank all their conversation partners from most humanlike…
Carnival of Mathematics 86 submissions are due
The next Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging round up hosted by a different blog each month and coordinated by The Aperiodical, will be hosted at The Math Less Travelled in May 2012. Submissions are due by Tuesday so please consider any blog posts either you have written or you have enjoyed on another blog…
APPROXYMOTION by Peter A Vikar
[vimeo url=http://vimeo.com/40641882] Peter’s site is full of beautifully stark geometric/topological art
Classic maths books reset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg
I was going to save this for an Aperiodical Round Up but it’s such a good thing I thought I’d post it straight away. Project Gutenberg has moved on from offering just plain-text transcriptions of books: volunteers have been outstandingly generous with their time and produced LaTeX versions of many maths books, producing versions that…
New Careers section on Plus Magazine
Plus Magazine have launched a new careers section. Aimed at teachers, students, career advisors and parents, the section offers a glimpse of where maths can take you. For a long time these have been the best sources of careers advice for mathematics in the UK so a collaboration should be very fruitful. This gives information…
Volcanic eruptions follow Benford’s Law
An article in Ars Technica reports on an investigation of the area and ages of volcanic calderas and the duration of volcanic eruptions between 1900 and 2009 in relation to Benford’s Law. Apparently Benford’s laws fit the eruption duration data “very well” and caldera areas offer “pretty good” fit, though the latter indicated that “some…