I feel like it’s time to do another summary of my recent additions to the Interesting Esoterica collection. A reminder of what it’s all about: every now and then I encounter a paper or a book or an article that grabs my interest but isn’t directly useful for anything. It might be about some niche…
Buchstabengewitter by Inigo Italic
MATH PROBLEMS?
Maths in the City posted this on twitter: In order to make a number we can call, we need both of \[n=(10x)(13i^2)\] and \[m=\frac{\sin(xy)}{2.362x}\] to be integers. Click here to continue reading MATH PROBLEMS? on cp’s mathem-o-blog
Ceramic sculpture by Eva Hild
Ceramic sculpture by Eva Hild:
Mathematicians are people too
Last Saturday in the Telegraph there was a feature announcing the start of a numeracy campaign: Make Britain Count. This included an article by Rachel Riley about “the stigma around maths“. She writes about the “image problem” of maths and numeracy: I’m a blonde Essex girl, so I’m well used to being talked down to,…
A 17×17 4-colouring with no monochromatic rectangles
Described on The Math Less Traveled
No pardon for Turing
A government minister in the Ministry of Justice, Lord McNally, in response to a question from Lord Sharkey on Thursday 2nd February 2012 made a statement in the House or Lords that “a posthumous pardon [for Alan Turing] was not considered appropriate”. The statement acknowledges that the offence of which Turing was convicted “now seems…