Labyrinth salt installation by Motoi Yamamoto:
Press release mayhem
On Google+ (sadly in a post with limited visibility, so I can’t link directly to it), Rongmin Lu (via David Roberts) highlights a case of “american whispers”, where a piece of research is helped along by press releases and media paraphrasing to become a completely different result. Here’s how American whispers works: 1. You publish a…
Laziest torus identified
Or, in similarly simplified headlinese, “Math finds the best doughnut”. A little bit more precisely, Fernando C. Marques and André Neves claim in a preprint on the arXiv to have proved the Willmore conjecture, that the minimum achievable mean curvature of a torus is $\frac{2}{\pi^2}$. The article I linked to is some surprisingly non-stupid coverage from the Huffington…
John Wood & Paul Harrison “One more kilometre”
[vimeo url=http://vimeo.com/37796909] Look at the fluid dynamics!
MathsJam March 2012 Photos
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Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 3
Summing up some more interesting esoterica seems like the right thing to do at the moment, so here’s that. A reminder: 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 sub-sub-subtopic I’ve never heard of,…
Maths Busking enters university outreach & public engagement competition
Maths Busking has been entered for ‘Engage U’, a “European Competition for Best Innovations in University Outreach and Public Engagement”. A detailed entry makes the case for Maths Busking, including the following description: Maths Busking aims to show the public the surprising and fascinating side of mathematics through the medium of street performance. The EngageU…