In this newsletter:
- Latest news
- Browse with Plus
- Mathematical moments
- Live maths
The next issue of Plus will be out 22 September
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Latest news from Plus
Just a little turbulence - Can researchers solve the mathematics of
turbulence at the smallest scale?
http://plus.maths.org/issue25/news/turbulence/index.html
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Browse with Plus
Minesweeper on a torus - You may think you have mastered minesweeper,
but have you demined a torus? A great way to while away those
unproductive hours after lunch - and tell yourself you are learning
about geometry! Plus particularly likes the way the torus explodes
when you get unlucky. This game is part of the JavaView Project,
which has developed a 3D geometry viewer for web pages. Look out for
'Imaging Maths' in the next issue of Plus - the first in a series from
Konrad Polthier, one of the creators of JavaView. Now for just one
more game...
http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/vgp/javaview/games/PaMinesweeper.html
More on tori and the mathematics of topology from Plus:
http://plus.maths.org/issue10/features/topology/index.html
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Live Maths
Is there a perfect cipher? - Professor Artur Ekert talks about the
history of secret communication and the how quantum physics offers the
possibility of perfect secrecy.
When: 5pm Thursday 16 October
Where: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge
The lecture is free, but by ticket only. For more information see the
MMP web site:
http://mmp.maths.org/events/lecturelist.html
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Mathematical moments
Marin Mersenne - Born 8 September 1588, died 1 September 1649.
Mersenne, a priest in Paris, was also an influential mathematician
most famous for his work on prime numbers, one group of which even
bear his name. Friends with Fermat, Pascal and Galileo, he was an
important part of the mathematical network of the time.
Read more about Marin Mersenne and the Mersenne Primes...
from the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive:
http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mersenne.html
from the Plus archive:
http://plus.maths.org/indices/keyword_urls.html#MERSENNE%20PRIME
from GIMPS - the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search:
http://www.mersenne.org/
You might even find the next Mersenne Prime!
Happy reading from the Plus team
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