Double Maths First Thing is grateful to Past Colin’s organisation.
Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and love of mathematics, even when deadlines are tight. Fortunately, I anticipated this might happen and prepared my links last week.
Over the weekend, the Pseudorandom Ensemble had our last rehearsal before the Mathsworld show we’ll see you at on the 21st. A few rough edges to rehearse off in private, but we’ve got some absolute bangers to share with you.
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Regular readers will probably be aware of my occasional minor obsessions, and the UK Constituency dashboard ticks several boxes for me. Did you know that South Dorset generates £216 million in tax? Neither did I!
Other important questions include, what happens when you throw a paper aeroplanes in space? and what actually happens to an arbitrary drum when you beat it?
I feel like I must have shared this article about computer arithmetic beyond floats, but can find no evidence.
Friend of DMFT Tom Briggs is developing library stacks to support his excellent book, The Mathematician’s Library. Other friends DMFT include Alex Bellos, whose fortnightly Guardian puzzle series has recently included a Monty Hall variation and a nice fishtank geometry puzzle from George Watkins.
The Aperiodical’s occasional series of video producers to watch recently featured Ellie Sleightholm.
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Sam Hartburn (as well as preparing for the show) is currently putting together the playlist for August’s TMiP Animation Collaboration Challenge, although I suspect the number of RANDOMNESS videos was small. September’s prompt is PROOFS WITHOUT WORDS, and I’m almost tempted to give it a go. In my copious free time. The September episode of the TMiP podcast is out, too.
Karen Campe is working on this month’s Carnival of Mathematics post; if you submit something there now, it’ll go to next month’s host, Benjamin Leis.
It’s #SciArtSeptember. Join in!
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is tomorrow, Thursday September 3rd. It will be webcast live, from 6pm UK time.
Dr Katherine Holmes is running a maths-themed STEM improv jam on Thursday September 10th (a week tomorrow).
7:30pm UK time, pay what you like. You can sign up to the newsletter here.
Richard Elwes is talking big numbers at the Wells Literary Festival on Sunday October 18th at 4:15pm. Tickets are £12.50.
Katie Steckles and Ben Sparks are running a pair of two-day Maths Communication training workshops in
Edinburgh (November 23rd-24th) and Bristol (February 24th-25th 2027).
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