Carnival of Mathematics

By Alon Levy

Biology bloggers have Tangled Bank. Medical bloggers have Grand Rounds. Neuroscience bloggers have Encephalon. And now math bloggers have the Carnival of Mathematics. If you have anything to blog about that’s related to math, it belongs here. Possible topics include,

- Proofs of theorems and formulas, whether in pure or applied math;
- Explanations of mathematical concepts, as basic as those on ScienceBlogs’ basic concepts series;
- Anything related to math education, from complaints about innumerate students to long-winded theories of how to teach math;
- Debunking bad math, especially when used to bolster bad science, bad economics, or bad politics;
- How to apply good math to other fields like physics, economics, computer science, and ;
- Math in popular culture: the TV series Numb3rs, the movies Pi and Proof, any book by Simon Singh, and so on.

Despite the mathematical inclination of the carnival, theoretical computer scientists and theoretical physicists are welcome to submit posts about their fields. Both disciplines are highly mathematized, and when it comes to such subfields as Lie theory, logic, and complexity theory, it’s hard to pinpoint where one discipline ends and other begins.

The posting schedule is every other Friday for now; we can drop to every fourth Friday or increase to every Friday based on demand later. For hosting requests, email me at alon_levy1@yahoo.com, and try including the words “Carnival of Mathematics” somewhere in the subject line to help me distinguish it from spam.

Posting schedule:

2007/2/9: Abstract Nonsense (posted!)

2007/2/23: Good Math, Bad Math (posted!)

2007/3/9: Michi’s Blog (posted!)

2007/3/23: EvolutionBlog (posted!)

2007/4/6: Science and Reason (posted!)

2007/4/20: Modulo Errors (posted!)

2007/5/4: Nonoscience (posted!)

2007/5/18: Geomblog (posted!)

2007/6/1: JD2718 (posted!)

2007/6/15: Math Notations (posted!)

2007/6/29: Grey Matters (posted!)

2007/7/13: Vedic Maths Forum (posted!)

2007/7/27: Polymathematics (posted!)

2007/8/10: Vlorbik on Math Ed (posted!)

2007/8/24: A Mispelt Bog (posted!)

2007/9/7: Learning Computation (posted!)

2007/9/21: Math Notations (posted!)

2007/10/5: JD2718 (posted!)

2007/10/19: Good Math, Bad Math (posted!)

2007/11/2: squareCircleZ (posted!)

2007/11/16: Winter’s Haven (???)

2007/11/30: Secret Blogging Seminar (posted!)

2007/12/14: Wild About Math (posted!)

2007/12/28: The Math Less Traveled (posted!)

2008/1/11: Ars Mathematica (posted!)

2008/1/25: Walking Randomly (posted!)

2008/2/8: 360 (posted!)

2008/2/22: JD2718 (posted!)

2008/3/7: Tyler and Foxy’s Scientific and Mathematical Adventure Land (posted!)

2008/3/21: Quomodocumque (posted!)

2008/4/4: The Number Warrior (posted!)

2008/4/18: Recursivity (posted!)

2008/5/2: Teaching College Math Technology Blog (posted!)

2008/5/16: Walking Randomly (posted!)

2008/5/30: 360 (posted!)

2008/6/13: CatSynth (posted!)

2008/6/27: —

2008/7/11: Rigorous Trivialities (posted!)

2008/7/25: Logic Nest (posted!)

2008/8/8: CatSynth (posted!)

2008/8/22: It’s the Thought that Counts (posted!)

2008/9/5: —

2008/9/26: Staring at Empty Pages (posted!)

2008/10/10: 360 (posted!)

2008/10/24: The Endeavour (posted!)

2008/11/7: The Number Warrior (posted!)

2008/11/21: Maxwell’s Demon (posted!)

2008/12/5: Teaching College Math Technology Blog (posted!)

2008/12/26: Walking Randomly (posted!)

2009/1/16: JD2718 (posted!)

2009/1/30: Concrete Nonsense (posted!)

2009/2/13: 360 (posted!)

2009/2/27: The Endeavour

29 Responses to “Carnival of Mathematics”

  1. Carnival of Mathematics « Abstract Nonsense Says:

    [...] of Mathematics Mark Friday, February the 9th on your calendar, folks. That’s when the Carnival of Mathematics goes up on Abstract Nonsense. If you have any submission, or want to host the carnival at a later [...]

  2. appletree » Blog Archive » Carnival of Mathematics Says:

    [...] Friday, February the 9th on your calendar, folks. That’s when the Carnival of Mathematics goes up on Abstract Nonsense. If you have any submission, or want to host the carnival at a later [...]

  3. Bryce Says:

    I’m trying to think of “bad math” people use and the only two areas that come to my mind immediately are probability/statistics and basic logic.

    Will we se others?

  4. Odile Says:

    I have some topics about maths for children on my site. Maths and thinking: is there a relationship? Books?

  5. Alon Levy Says:

    Bryce, so far I don’t think there’s any bad math submission.

    Odile, if you think there’s something good enough to submit, just email it to me.

  6. Brent Says:

    Just a suggestion: could you make a new post here each time a new Carnival goes up, with a link to it? If you only edit this entry to add a link, it won’t show up in RSS, and I’m afraid I simply won’t remember to come back and check!

  7. Odile Says:

    I’m going to put your carnival in my blogroll because I have readers that may be interested.

  8. First Post « Math Ed Blog Says:

    [...] June 7th, 2007 I was clicking around in the latest Carnival of Mathematics recently and finally became aware that a lot of math blogs were hosted at WordPress and that maybe [...]

  9. Carnival! « Vlorbik on Math Ed Says:

    [...] my “Textbooks and Notations” rant of a few days ago. No, I’m telling you because the Carnival is always worth a look. Here are summaries of the first nine Carnivals (by Steve of Mathematics [...]

  10. Send Links « Vlorbik on Math Ed Says:

    [...] July 30th, 2007 I’m hosting the Carnival of Mathematics here in a couple of Fridays (August 10). here is a page with a submission form. My e-mail address [...]

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  13. lehalle Says:

    I can host the carnival for today (2008/7/11)

  14. Charles Says:

    Alon, if you’re having trouble finding the time to maintain things (the blog carnival page and this one, for instance) I’m willing to give you a hand.

  15. The Carnival of Mathematics « problemas | teoremas Says:

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  16. thoughtcounts A Says:

    Despite the lack of update to the post above, I’ll be hosting the carnival at It’s the Thought that Counts tomorrow. Submissions welcome, either through the submission form or by emailing a@thoughtcounts.net.

  17. Batman Says:

    Unless someone has already volunteered for the next Carnival (Oct. 3), we’ll host it over at 360. (And if someone has already claimed Oct. 3, we’ll take the next available opening.) Please spread the word.

  18. CatSynth Says:

    Calculating ahead from October 3 (hey, it’s mathematics), we would like to host October 31, Hallowe’en edition!

  19. Batman Says:

    Because of the delay for the soon-to-be 40th Carnival (over at Staring at Empty Pages, we’re hosting #41 on October 10, so…November 7 would be the Halloween edition. Except I want there to be a Halloween edition on Halloween, so I say go for it!

  20. Andrew Says:

    LOL
    that doesn’t even make any sense!

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