Rupa Patel reflects to Plus on her work as a financial engineer
When we finally meet the Martians, John Conway believes they are going to want to talk mathematics.
(15/05/2008)
Great educational thinker dies
(05/05/2008
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Abstract ideas better than real-world examples for maths learning
(01/05/2008)
Using sand to create new mathematical models
Podcast 8, April 2008: Codes and codebreaking - the Enigma machine
Squares do it, triangles do it, even hexagons do it — but pentagons don't. They just won't fit together to tile a flat surface. So are there any tilings based on fiveness? Craig Kaplan takes us through the five-fold tiling problem and uncovers some interesting designs in the process.
