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’…
Para Clocks by LeeLABS:
For a while now (what, over a year?) the folks at Mathblogging.org have been choosing their weekly ‘picks’ of the blogs coming through their aggregator. The promise at the start of each post has amazed me: We try to read every blog post that goes through Mathblogging.org. For the Weekly Picks, we collect posts from…
There is a new page collating all previous Carnival of Mathematics posts and listing future hosts, and through which you can volunteer to host future Carnivals: “Carnival of Mathematics“.
In my capacity as someone who occasionally turns up and does maths at people, I often find myself exposed to ‘starter puzzles’ – things the organisers provide to whichever group of humans have come to see me do maths, to give them something to do in any waiting time before the event starts. This is,…
An interview/profile of John Conway has been published at The Daily Princetonian. Conway talks about his life and his methods. “We’re remarkably free here,” Conway said of his position at Princeton. “Nobody tells me off for playing games. In fact, I’ve made playing games be serious.” Source: Math and games.
Keith Devlin has written a piece in the Huffington Post. Repetitive tasks such as high-tech assembly-line manufacturing, airline reservations, and customer support are not the only things that can be outsourced in the flat world of the twenty-first century. So too can many less routine tasks that require a university education in science, technology, engineering…