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Linkage for the ides of March

Mar 15, 2015

  • The Schmidt arrangement, triangular rosettes of circles from number theory (G+)

  • Brückner, Vielecke und Vielflache (1900), with a tumblr post of some stellated polyhedra photographed in the book (G+)

  • $1000 prize for solving open problems in OEIS

  • MAA celebrates Women's History Month (G+)

  • Tensegrity robot video

  • Mini-biographies of five women scientists (G+)

  • Numberphile video on the diversity of human natural-language number systems

  • Interactive 3d fractal fly-through

  • Yet more Elsevier misbehavior (charging for access to open-access papers; G+)

  • Sad news of Jirka Matousek's death (G+)

  • Increasing attacks on academic freedom (G+)

  • Vi Hart throws cold water on the whole Pi day thing and how arbitrary it is (G+)

  • Folding de Bruijn graphs

  • David Eppstein

Geometry, graphs, algorithms, and more