Carnival of Mathematics

The 71st Carnival of Mathematics has been published over at Theorem of the day.  Treats from this month’s mathematical menu include everything you ever wanted to know about the number 71, squaring the circle, probability and prime numbers, the greatest living mathematicians and much much more.

The 31st edition of Math Teachers at Play has been posted over at Homeschool bytes.

In the beginning, there was The Carnival of Mathematics and it was good.  Then came Math Teachers at Play which looked at mathematics from a different angle.  Now, we also have the Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival and the 4th edition has just been posted over at Sol’s Wild About Math.  Enjoy!

The 31st edition of the Math Teachers at Play carnival will be hosted next week over at Homeschool Bytes.  Head over to the MTAP submission page to get your mathy blog posts submitted.

The 70th Carnival of Math has been published by Daniel over at General Musings.  Topics touched on include Pi, comics, asymptotes and how to calculate x^n on a computer as efficiently as possible

Back in October 2009 I took over the co-ordination of the Carnival of Mathematics after a brief consultation with some members of the mathematical blogging community (links here and here).  The carnival’s sister is Math Teachers at Play (MTAP) and this is co-ordinated by Denise of Let’s Play Math fame.

Fast forward 12 months to October 2010 and we are about to publish the 70th edition of the Math Carnival over at General Musings.  In addition, MTAP saw it’s 30th edition earlier this month giving a total 100 carnival editions in all!  Thanks to a vibrant worldwide community of mathematical bloggers, both carnivals have been going from strength to strength and it is a genuine pleasure to be involved with them.

Most of the carnival related comments I’ve received over the last year have been positive but one topic kept cropping up time and time again; people told me “I’d love to follow the various math carnivals more but I can never keep track of where they are hosted.”

In my opinion, one of the strengths of the math carnivals are that they hosted by different bloggers on different blogs every month and every host gives them their own particular style.  This is great stuff but it does make the carnivals rather difficult to track.

One attempt to help people track the carnival of math was to create a twitter feed for it and this has been moderately successful but didn’t completely solve the problem.  What the carnivals need, I thought, is a central location that will keep the community updated with carnival news.  This site is that central location.

How its going to work

This site will never actually host the carnival.  Instead, it will consist of a set of short posts that will announce carnival news such as the latest editions of both The Carnival of Mathematics and Math Teachers at Play.  So, if you want to follow both carnivals then all you need to do is to subscribe to the RSS feed of this site and you’ll never miss an edition again.  That’s it.