On 17th April 2012 the West Midlands Branch of the IMA will hear ‘Routing Military Convoys’ by Andy Verity-Harrison. in Birmingham near New Street railway station. Non-members welcome, no charge is made. Abstract: Current military operations emphasise the need for mobility more than ever. Thus, routing convoys so that they reach their correct destinations in…
Intersections: Art inspired by maths at the Science Museum
The Telegraph numeracy campaign has a review of Intersections, an exhibition available at The Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum and at the Royal Society from 5 April to 20 June 2012, which “throws new light on the often overlooked common ground of art and maths”. The article writes about Henry Moore, who drew inspiration…
Gathering for Gardner 10 #g4g10
You may be aware that Gathering for Gardner 10 took place last week.
Slides about the princess in a castle puzzle
I gave a talk to our internal postgrad forum last week about the princess in a castle puzzle. I made some slides for it using deck.js. They looked quite nice and I could just about get what I wanted in them, but I now know that using SVG in HTML is still an enormous faff…
Words to Fill Space
For the April 2012 issue of Puzzlebomb, I devised Hilbert’s Space-Filling Crossword: The five clues lead to four four-letter words along the rows of the grid, and one sixteen-letter word snaking round the shape given by the thick lines. The puzzle gets its name from the shape traced out by the long word, which is the…
All mathematical blogging to cease
The feeds at Mathblogging.org ran dry this morning following a realisation that every topic has now been covered. The news prompted a major fall in the Mathblogging.org share price, sparking concerns about the aggregator’s future. The news is particularly unwelcome for The Aperiodical, a blogging collaboration which is still yet to formally launch. The realisation…
Puzzlebomb – April 2012
Puzzlebomb is a monthly puzzle compendium. Issue 4 of Puzzlebomb, for April 2012, can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 4 – April 2012 The solutions to Issue 4 can be found here: Puzzlebomb – Issue 4 – April 2012 – Solutions Previous issues of Puzzlebomb, and their solutions, can be found here. (The April Fools’…