Welcome to the fourth match in this year’s Big Math-Off. Take a look at the two interesting bits of maths below, and vote for your favourite. You can still submit pitches, and anyone can enter: instructions are in the announcement post. Here are today’s two pitches.
One positive effect of the various lock-downs in place around the world is the sudden emergence of massive numbers of online seminars and talks. The site Math Seminars, developed by a team at MIT and currently in beta, holds a list of upcoming one-off talks and seminar series.
Welcome to the third match in this year’s Big Math-Off. Take a look at the two interesting bits of maths below, and vote for your favourite. You can still submit pitches, and anyone can enter: instructions are in the announcement post. Here are today’s two pitches.
Welcome to the second match in this year’s Big Math-Off. Take a look at the two interesting bits of maths below, and vote for your favourite. You can still submit pitches, and anyone can enter: instructions are in the announcement post. Here are today’s two pitches.
Mathematician John Horton Conway, a professor at both the University of Cambridge and Princeton University, and the originator of hundreds of lovely and clever maths things, has died at the age of 82.
Welcome to what has become by default the sporting event of the year! The Big Math-Off is running a little bit earlier this year, to keep us entertained while we’re stuck indoors. Because it’s unclear how long the lock-down will last, and nobody knows what’s coming one day to the next, this year’s Math-Off is…
In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to maths podcaster Erik Seligman about his self-published podcast Math Mutation.