With Easter coming up, I’ve finally put together a “how-to” video, showing how to use the Easter Date Worksheet available on this website. Download and print a few copies, and work out the date of Easter in any year you like, and watch the video below!
Author: Dr Mike
Highway Jam – Free Version
The free version of Highway Jam is now available for iPhone or iPad in the App Store!
To Err Or Not To Err, That Is The Question
I was using some software on my iPhone today, when this alert appeared :
Highway Jam
Highway Jam is a game based loosely on the Traffic Jam Game found elsewhere on this site, and marketed by ThinkFun. Instead of solving individual 6×6 puzzle grids, Highway Jam puts your car at the end of a highway 300 squares long!
Is Math The Primum Movens?
Some time ago, I wrote a couple of posts distinguishing All Possible Math from the Math We Know. In short, people only study the mathematics that is interesting or useful to us, and not too hard. When you think about that it becomes clear that there’s a lot more mathematics possible than the stuff Homo Sapiens talks about. Much of All Possible Math would be uninteresting for us, useless and/or too hard to grasp.
Two Games Called Meta
Keep This In Mind
When reading the news, keep in mind that just because two things change together, doesn’t mean there’s any direct causal link.
Sugar and Space
This is a back issue of this website’s newsletter.
Matheroids is now available on the App Store At last!
7 Billion
According to official sources, the world’s 7 billionth person was born today. This is a fiction. The goal is to raise awareness about the world’s population. It’s working – the news seems to be all over the blogosphere.
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Mathematics
To paraphrase Douglas Adams, “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers the foundations of mathematics to be contradictory, they will instantly disappear and be replaced with something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened”