A conversation about infinity inspired by The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Double Maths First Thing is what the internet used to be like before billionaires bought it. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share joy and delight in maths. I’m writing this in a rush, so it’s just a list of links this week. Soz like. I’m rushed…
A brief update about the state of social media. A couple of years ago, I wrote about the decline of Twitter and how I was going to consciously shift my activity to Mathstodon. Just over a year ago, we launched The Finite Group, a members’ club for mathsy people, partly inspired by the collapse of…
I’d like to cut a rectangle into a 3×4 grid of squares. To minimise the number of cuts, should I cut three long strips first, or four short strips? Does it matter?
Double Maths First Thing is where there area 10 kinds of people: those who understand hexadecimal, and F others. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share joy and delight in maths, beyond and instead of the test. Around here, we count in hexadecimal. My big news! This…
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a very special parallelepiped. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Ayliean. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Double Maths First Thing is like a diet MathsJam, some of the flavour but only a hint of the joy. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread delight in my beloved subject. I spent the weekend at Big MathsJam in Staffordshire and gorged myself full of puzzles,…