Wrong, But Useful: Episode 55

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This month, it’s Gathering4Gardner special, largely recorded in Atlanta with Adam Atkinson and @dragon_dodo. We discuss:

• Our favourite talks of the event, including:
  • The Juggler Problem
  • The Taxman Problem
  • Ramanujan Sums
  • Optical illusions
  • Doris Schattschneider’s talk on Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician who made huge leaps in the study of tessellating pentagons
• Artistic adventures in Decatur
  • Drawing on the tables
  • Hyperbolic creations
  • Hexaflexagons
  • Escher exhibition
  • A Zometool sculpture
• The G4G Youth initiative
• Ernő Rubik’s panel with Jeff Varasano
• Elan Lee and Jordan Gold’s amazing talk on how to delight a conference queue
• Dice and gift bags
• General things about the conference
• Would we come back?
• The Banach-Tiago paradox

Also:

• There’s an @aperiodical editathon on May 12th.
• There’s a conference in London on May 19th about the history of cryptography.