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.
Book review – The Beauty of Falling by Claudia de Rham
We were kindly sent a copy of Claudia de Rham’s new book ‘The Beauty of Falling’, and asked irregular contributor Elinor Flavell to write this review.
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5C
Double Maths First Thing is NOT procrastinating in the group chat. Why would you even suggest that? Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing maths and, from time to time, the absurdities it throws up. For example, if you’re a certain…
Carnival of Maths 252
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May 2026, is now online courtesy of Sophia Wood at Fractal Kitty. 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.
Aperiodical News Roundup – April/May 2026
Here’s a short round-up of maths news stories from the last two months that we didn’t otherwise cover on the site. Thomas Dieterrich, a representative of the arXiv, has clarified the site’s AI policy – in a Twitter thread (non-Twitter mirror link) he explains that their Code of Conduct states that the an author of…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5B
Double Maths First Thing doesn’t know where to start Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight that comes from working things through and wrapping them up with a neat mathematical bow. Before anything else, a quick correction: last time out I credited Kate…
Talking Maths in… Coventry Transport Museum
This is a guest post from museum educator and mathematician Tom Briggs, about his session at last August’s Talking Maths in Public conference. 2025’s Talking Maths in Public (TMiP) conference took place on the Warwick University campus, but the Saturday morning networking and wind-down venue was the fabulous Coventry Transport Museum. A few weeks earlier…