Women Pioneers of Mathematics This month is Women in History Month, and 8th March was International Women’s Day. In celebration of all the brilliant women who’ve made mathematics what it is, here’s a celebration of mathematical firsts – pioneers … 25. Mar 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 4 comments
How Data Science Can Help Us Understand (and Fight) Wildfires The 2019-2020 Australian wildfires burned an estimated 186,000 square kilometers (72,000 square miles), ravaging the country and killing up to 1 billion animals. In California, the 2019 wildfire season ravaged over 1,000 square kilometers, often … 17. Mar 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments
John Hopcroft on the teaching of today and tomorrow John Hopcroft is an ACM A.M Turing Award laureate, which he won in 1986 together with Robert E. Tarjan for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. He distinguished himself … 10. Mar 2020 | By Demian Goos | 2 comments
Picking and choosing In a post last April, I described some of the mathematics behind combinatorics – the branch of mathematics concerned with counting all the different ways to do something. Often, this kind of maths appears in … 02. Mar 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 7 comments
Nothing I try to find a varied range of topics to write about for this blog, but sometimes you run out of inspiration and find you have nothing to write about. Luckily, this has happened to … 20. Feb 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 5 comments
Aldo Spizzichino exhibition at the HLF 2017 Parallel to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation organizes an exhibition related to mathematics or computer science, as part of the accompanying program of the HLF. In 2019 it was the mathematics … 11. Feb 2020 | By Constanza Rojas-Molina | 3 comments
Calculating Percentages I have a strange relationship with my calculator. A lot of people who haven’t met many mathematicians assume when they meet me that my status as a mathematician qualifies me as a super-brain who would … 29. Jan 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 0 comments
Building Blocks A friend of mine recently kindly made me a present, using their 3D printer – a puzzle made up of 21 pieces, three each of seven different shapes. The statement of the puzzle is as … 20. Jan 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 0 comments
A mathematical card trick Often at this time of year, people are visiting family, and sometimes traditional games and toys come out to occupy your time. If you’ve got a deck of playing cards handy, you can perform a … 23. Dec 2019 | By Katie Steckles | 0 comments
Candle puzzles – solutions Here are the solutions to the eight candle puzzles we posted earlier. The candles cost €1.05, and the matches cost €0.05. Every 30 seconds the number of people whose candles are lit doubles, starting with … 17. Dec 2019 | By Katie Steckles | 4 comments
