Earlier, I reported on my visit to the Manchester careers fair, Calculating Careers, in which I used some mathematical puzzles to attract potential careers advice recipients to my stall. I just discovered that my attempt to draw people in using mathematical curiosities may be related to the practice described in this documentary piece.
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Licence to practice mathematics
I intermittently read a webcomic xkcd, which is mostly teccy and sometimes mathsy jokes. One from a couple of weeks ago stikes me as funny: “Math Paper“. Also, the last frame reminds me of a sign I saw attached to the side of the Department of Mathematics at Bristol. I took a picture of this, (I didn’t take much time over this as it was raining pretty badly so the quality is not great, but I think you get the idea):
(for those grounded in reality, the sign was of course in the car park attached to the Department).