Circus of the Spineless 37 is now up!

Go check it out at GrrlScientist! There are some really great posts over there (and there's even one from your's truly). There's fantastic photo essays, cool videos, and informative educational pieces. Go there now!

Carnival of Mathematics: Edition IX is up

The ninth edition of The Carnival of Mathematics is up at JD2718. Sorry that I missed editions 7 & 8. I've been slacking a bit lately. This edition is a fun one. There were several posts about things that I always found fascinating when I was younger (and still do). Make sure to check out the posts on The Monty Hall Paradox, The Prisoner's Dilemna (including a new twist hadn't heard before), e^iπ + 1 = 0, and The Dollar Auction. Good stuff!

Carnival of Mathematics: Edition 6 is up

The sixth edition of The Carnival of Mathematics is up at Modulo Errors. My favorite submission was about the guy who thought he was being clever by finding a "short cut" to a problem only to discover that "brute force" was actually the most efficient means of solving that problem.

Carnival of Mathematics: Ordinal 5

The fifth edition of The Carnival of Mathematics is up at Science and Reason. After a quick perusal, my favorite posts are the one's about Penrose-oid patterns in medieval muslim tiling.



The study of the mathematics behind muslim tiling is nothing new, but the connection to Penrose patterns is.

Carnival of Mathematics: Edition IV

The fourth edition of The Carnival of Mathematics is up at EvolutionBlog. I haven't had a chance to read through the posts yet, so no favorite recommendation this time.

Carnival of Mathematics: Edition III

The third edition of The Carnival of Mathematics is up at Michi's Blog. My favorite so far was the pi animation from Scott Cram's pi posts.

Carnival of Mathematics: Edition II

Okay, I'm about a week late posting this--super sorry! The second edition of The Carnival of Mathematics is up at Good Math Bad Math. First, Mark does a great job as host; I love it when the Carnival host works a story into the post.

Second, once again the quality of blogging is exceptional. My favorites (sorry, no hotlinks, you'll have to go over to the Carnival itself for those) are the spider problem (fun puzzle), the rubiks cube (I'm meaning to write a post on group theory--and maybe even groupoids, ooh), Escher (Escher, 'nuff said), and the halting problem (Turing is da Man!).

Carnival of Mathematics

The first edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is up at Abstract Nonsense. There are some very interesting posts there. There's even a small contribution from yours truly.