Double Maths First Thing is apparently abelian.
Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing maths. Today, though, I’m on a train to speak with a client about modelling extreme winds, which I suspect I find more enjoyable than they do. I’ll at least try to make it fun.
Links
Let’s start with a couple of links that came to me from Sophia at Fractal Kitty: first, a self-descriptive sequence, and second, an invitation to dance curves with one’s face. I have not tried, and will not.
Have you come across the geometrically equal to symbol? What does it mean? I’ve only been able to find obviously-AI explanations, and trust those about as far as I’d throw them; I suspect I’m the first person to have read them.
A fun project involving some of my favourite maths people: Tappy Mathematics, a project to develop and animate new maths songs for 3-6 year-olds. Warning: may give you unshakeable earworms.
Some games to enjoy while those are going around your head: Gerrymandle, in which you build electoral districts to achieve unfair outcomes; Quantum Minesweeper, which I don’t really understand; and Triangulation Minesweeper, which is almost as annoying as the songs are getting now.
With Scotland having done the Scotland thing, the most interesting thing about the World Cup now is the fluid dynamics of the ball.
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Edinburgh people, I gather there is some mathematical influence in the Common Threads exhibition in Coburg Street until Sunday July 5th.
Submit your Carnival of Maths links before the end of July and Robin at Theorem Of The Day will collate them into something magnificent (presumably, he usually does.)
There have been some great Finite Group livestreams recently – I especially enjoyed the recent substitution rules one. If you sign up, you’ll have access to at least some of them, and the next one is Thursday July 23rd at noon UK time.
That’s all I’ve got for this week. If you have friends and/or colleagues who would enjoy Double Maths First Thing, do send them the link to sign up – they’ll be very welcome here.
If you’ve missed the previous issues of DMFT or – somehow – this one, you can find the archive courtesy of my dear friends at the Aperiodical.
Meanwhile, if there’s something I should know about, you can find me on Mathstodon as @icecolbeveridge, or at my personal website. You can also just reply to this email if there’s something you want to tell me.
Until next time,
C