Here’s a quick round-up of maths internet news this month! Progress has been made on the Lonely Runner problem, which concerns when runners of different speeds going round a track will meet up, and has connections to higher-dimensional geometry. A workshop for queer and trans people in category theory, which has an excellent logo, will…
Double Maths First Thing could be Rotterdam or anywhere Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in doing maths. I’m on a bit of a buzz at the moment – I went to my local open mic on Friday and had the sort…
Double Maths First Thing insists it’s March 32nd Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in mathematical thinking. After the clock change and a trip to that London – we chanced on a Rob Eastaway talk at Maths World that a weekly maths…
Double Maths First Thing saw two shooting stars last night Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy of thinking mathematically, solving problems and generally doing creative things with one’s brain. Such as, to pick a random example, taking a new instrument to rehearsal with the…
Double Maths First Thing is singing powerful songs Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy, delight and frustration of doing maths. Welcome to episode 50! That’s excitement, not factorial. I enjoyed the latest episode (other sources available) of A Problem Squared, to the point that…
Can you believe it’s been 10 years since I made the “Is this prime?” game? I sort of can, because I set myself a reminder about it in my calendar. Back in 2016, the game had been played 350,000 times and I wrote a post looking at the collected data. 10 years later, I thought…
Double Maths First Thing is remembering how icosahedra work. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy, delight and just satisfaction in doing maths. This week’s excitement was being mentioned (twice!) in a Stand Up Maths video – it’s embarrassingly recently that I realised the acronym is…