I’m not one for producing creative writing but yesterday, thanks to James Clare, I came across a fun idea: the BSFA Tweetfiction Tweetstream challenge. There are bunch of rules on the website but basically it’s an original piece of sci-fi or fantasy fiction contained within a tweet with the hashtag #TBSFA. Check out attempts by…
Origami Tessellations by Eric Gjerde
Origami Tessellations by Eric Gjerde:
Math/Maths 91: Gathering for Gardner 10
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. First Samuel and Peter were joined by special guest Edmund Harriss to talk about his time at Gathering for Gardner 10 and Five math things to do before you die, then they spoke with…
‘School Of Hard Sums’ maths gameshow
School Of Hard Sums, the Dara O Briain-fronted maths game show from Dave (based on the Emmy-award nominated Japanese comedy-panel format Comaneci University Mathematics) starts an 8 episode run 16th April at 8pm on Dave. A page at the British Comedy Guide says: Showing how maths underpins everything in the world around us, each programme…
Third IMA Virtual Branch talk: ‘Dissections – highlights from a masterclass’ by Bernard Murphy
The IMA has a series of online talks. The third in this series will be ‘Dissections – highlights from a masterclass’ by Bernard Murphy on Thursday 10th May 2012 starting at 7 pm. The following information is available on attending this: This is to be the third IMA virtual branch talk and will take place…
Carnival of Mathematics 85
85 by brighterorange Introduction Welcome to a new Carnival of Mathematics! Traditionally the Carnival opens with facts about the number, this time 85, but first I have an important point of admin to address. From Carnival of Mathematics 59 in November 2009 until Carnival of Mathematics 84 in December 2011, the Carnival was coordinated by…
April Fools on the arXiv
Here’s a post on Metafilter about papers posted to the arXiv on April Fools’ Day. They’re all from the physics section, but a couple are of the basically-maths sort of physics. I had a look at the maths section for any papers with bizarre titles published on the 1st of April but I couldn’t find…