Wrong, But Useful: Episode 3

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It’s the awkward third episode! In which…

• @sr_cav (who is Cav in real life) is nice about us on his blog
• Dave meets Art Benjamin
  • Art Benjamin’s TED talks about mathemagic and statistics
  • Rüdiger Gamm’s mental arithmetic
  • Secrets of the mathematical ninja
• Colin invites you to MathsJam - Yarnfield Park, Stone, November 2/3rd 2013
• Dave does a stats exam and lectures Colin about what counts as an exam
• Colin and the maths police investigate whether Nakamoto and Mochizuki are the same person:
  • Axes to Axes at the Aperiodical
  • Ted Nelson on the two
  • Shinichi Mochizuki and the ABC conjecture
  • Nakamoto and bitcoin
  • JGAAP - authorship attribution. (Thanks to @_TK_O, who is Tanya Osborne in real life.)
• Dave stamps down on simultaneous word equations
• Colin applies maths in the garden: \(V = \\frac{\\pi}{3}\\left(R^2 + Rr + r^2\\right)h\)
• Dave lowers the tone and Colin tries to rescue it with a Fibonacci half-marathon
• Then literature! Feynman Point Pilish Poetry ((Correction: Feynman would have been 95 this month, not 99 as Colin says.)) The Feynman point is at digit 762 of $\pi$. Thanks to @giftedmaths, who is Richard Mankiewicz in real life.
• Dave listens to the Aperiodicast ((Oops)) All Squared and wonders why some times are more attractive than others.
• @notonlyahatrack (who is Will Davies in real life) answered last month’s puzzle and had it featured on @haggismaths’s What’s on my blackboard blog.
• This month’s puzzle: An equilateral triangle and a regular hexagon have the same perimeter. The triangle has an area of 2; what is the area of the hexagon?
• This month’s confusion: what’s the difference between a chart, a graph, a figure and a picture?