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Mathematical Objects: Twenty Pence coin

By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted August 28, 2020

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Twenty Pence coin. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

@stecks Despite sounding like French name, Franz Reuleaux was German (I only 'discovered' that when I read what I wrote about him some years ago.)
— Pat Ashforth (1948 – 2021) (@matheknitician) August 29, 2020

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Podcasting about: Mathematical Objects

By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted August 26, 2020

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… ourselves, since we run a podcast here and realised we haven’t done one of these posts about it! Katie and Peter are currently in their third season of fortnightly episodes, with plenty more to come.

Mathematical Objects: A vehicle with Christopher Danielson

By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted August 14, 2020

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a vehicle. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Christopher Danielson.

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Mathematical Objects: Möbius band

By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted July 31, 2020

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Möbius band. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

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nimsticks: LaTeX package for drawing Nim sticks and games

By Peter Rowlett. Posted July 24, 2020

A while ago on this blog I shared a LaTeX macro I had written for drawing games of Nim. I have now taken the plunge and written this into a LaTeX package called nimsticks. (Why? What do you do to relax on a lazy Sunday morning?)

Here is the description of the nimsticks package:

This LaTeX package provides commands \drawnimstick to draw a single nim stick and \nimgame which represents games of multi-pile Nim. Nim sticks are drawn with a little random wobble so they look ‘thrown together’ and not too regular.

What this does it allows commands such as \nimgame{5,3,4} which renders like this: