It’s π eve, and I’ve had a silly idea: I’m going to take the ridiculous website I made to show all the digits of π, and stream it scrolling indefinitely through them over the internet. Starting at midnight GMT on 2019-03-14, the stream below will start scrolling down through the digits of π: I had…
It was an open question whether 33 could be written as the sum of three cubes. Thanks to Andrew R. Booker, it now isn’t. \begin{array}{c} (8866128975287528)^3 \\ + \\(-8778405442862239)^3 \\ + \\(-2736111468807040)^3 \\ = \\ 33\end{array}
Good maths t-shirts are hard to come by, so I’ve made four of my own.
Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, episodes of Mathematical Objects will take an object, real or abstract, as inspiration to chat about a mathematical topic. This introduction explains the idea ahead of the first episode, coming soon. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Did you like playing with shape sorters as a toddler, but find them too simple as an adult? Well, I’ve got good news for you.
Today’s Google Doodle (visit google.com to see it, or if you miss today, you can find it in their archive) celebrates Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya. In recognition of her 97th birthday, the Doodle includes the Navier-Stokes equations, of which Ladyzhenskaya provided the first rigorous proofs of convergence using a finite-difference method.
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of February, is now online at Tom Rocks Maths. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.