Mathematics Today

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…

Cuentos Con Cuentas

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…

Trying to predict a floating leaf: chaos and predictions

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…

How to get rid of quantifiers?

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

Bridges

Septembers Seite des Monats ist: Bridges Bridges ist eine Organisation, die die jährliche Bridges Konferenz über Mathematik und Kunst leitet. Die Seite beinhaltet viele Bilder und Quellen verschiedenster künstlerischer Darstellungen: von Poesie bis zu Modellen, von Tanz bis zu Origami,…

Mathematical Models

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,…

Mathematical Models

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,…

Bridges

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,…

Indra’s Pearls – The Vision of Felix Klein

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…

Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions

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…