As part of the Telegraph numeracy campaign “Making Britain Count”, Matt Parker’s second set of puzzles are online. This time they are themed around prime numbers. Telegraph: Numeracy campaign: More maths puzzles by Matt Parker.
Barriers to teaching
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Math/Maths 86: Complex Pony Tails
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about: The Recent Difficulties with RSA; Do we need a maths museum?; Brian Schmidt’s Mathematical Arguement; IBM claims most PhD mathematicians in its employ; Maths grads teaching alert;…
Reading around the Alan Turing Pardon
I have a piece in this week’s Pod Delusion episode 123 at 45:00 on the pardon for Alan Turing. Here are links to some of the bits I talked about in this. I spoke about concerns of overdoing the Turing celebrations, saying: what Turing did was brilliant, but we should celebrate what Turing actually did,…
A puzzle from James Grime about abcdef
Today James Grime tweeted this question/puzzle: Is there a six digit number abcdef such that the following all hold? a+b+c+d+e+f = y ab+cd+ef=10y abc+def=100y If not, show why not. A little tweeting back and forth verified that “ab” means 10a+b not a×b. If you want to have a go at this, don’t read any further…
The True Importance of Friends
A new post is available over at Second-Rate Minds by Samuel Hansen. Why your friends have more friends than you do. That is the rather provocative title of a 1991 paper by Purdue University sociologist Scott Feld. While the title is rather provocative, thankfully it turns out that the statement is built on a solid…
Things to do in London on a Tuesday
Next Tuesday I will spend a day off in London. I am asking people to offer suggestions for things I could do with my time by adding pins to this Google Map: PR’s Day Off. A few people have already added their suggestions but it would be great to hear more. View PR’s Day Off…