Author Archives: Sarah Spoenemann

Mathematics Today

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

October’s site of the month: Mathematics Today Mathematics Today is a magazine published by the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. It is a general interest magazine about mathematics intended for those interested in the subject (by christopher). Much … Continue reading →

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Cuentos Con Cuentas

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

October’s Book of the Month is Cuentos Con Cuentas by Miguel de Guzman (Labor, Barcelona, 1984). This is also published in English under the title The Countingbury Tales, translated by Jody Doran and published by World Scientific (2000). Have a … Continue reading →

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Trying to predict a floating leaf: chaos and predictions

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

Originating author is César R. de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. What path will a leaf follow floating down a turbulent stream? Is it even possible to make a mathematical model that will predict such motion? Is this the … Continue reading →

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How to get rid of quantifiers?

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

Originating authors are Reinhard Oldenburg and Michele Artigue. How do computer packages do abstract algebraic problems such as proving statements “for all ” or finding whether a Real Number with certain conditions exists? Recent advances draw on theorems in mathematical … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Models

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

September’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Models” by H.M. Cundy and A.P. Rolett. This classic was first published in 1952 by Oxford University Press, but was republished in paperback by Tarquin in 1981. As well as nets polyhedra, … Continue reading →

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Bridges

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

September’s site of the month: Bridges Bridges is an organisation that oversees the annual Bridges conference on Mathematics and Art. It contains images and resources of many different kinds of artistic representations, from poetry to models, from dance to origami, … Continue reading →

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Indra’s Pearls – The Vision of Felix Klein

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

August’s featured book of the month is “Indra’s Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein” by David Mumford, Caroline Series and David Wright. Wikipedia says: “The book explores the patterns created by iterating conformal maps of the complex plane called Möbius transformations, and their connections with symmetry and self-similarity. The … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

July’s featured book of the month is “Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions” by Martin Gardner. This book, which was originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1959, and later by University of Chigaco Press in 1988, is the first of several collections … Continue reading →

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Mathematikum

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

August’s site of the month: Mathematikum This is the website of the Mathematics Museum in Gießen — it includes models and activities of interest to people of all ages.

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Images des Maths

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Sarah Spoenemann

July’s site of the month: Images des Maths This site is affiliated to the French National Center for Scientific Research. It contains reports about the latest events in mathematical research, and up-to-date articles that contain interesting discussions and applications of mathematics … Continue reading →

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