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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 29

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted June 18, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing is excited about the moon! Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing and thinking about maths. Annoyingly, immediately after last week’s issue went out, several interesting things popped onto my radar. One of them was Katie and Peter asking why nobody…

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    -e^iπ to Watch

    \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Boppana Math

    By Katie Steckles. Posted June 16, 2025

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    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical video and streaming channels from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the channel and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Ravi Boppana about his channel, Boppana Math.

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    Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2025

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted June 14, 2025

    The UK Government have announced the new set of King’s Birthday Honours. Here’s our selection of particularly mathematical entries for this year. If you spot any more, let us know in the comments and we’ll add to the list. Get the full list from gov.uk. Spot anyone we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments.

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    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Maths 240

    By Katie Steckles. Posted June 11, 2025

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May 2025, is now online at Beauty of Mathematics. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 28

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted June 11, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing is bringing the thunder Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in playing with patterns, puzzles, figures and logic. First up, an apology: in last week’s issue, I mistyped the number of solvable nonograms: rather than 25,000, there are 25,000,000. As…

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    Podcasting About: Stats + Stories

    By Katie Steckles. Posted June 6, 2025

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    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to John Bailer and Rosemary Pennington, the hosts of the podcast Stats + Stories.

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 27

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted June 4, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing always takes the weather with it Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to disseminate mathematical joy and the pleasure of figuring things out. I’m just back from a week in the Peak District, where we discovered that Pete the dog likes neither stepping stones,…

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