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Aperiodcast – 11/02/2013

By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Katie Steckles. Posted February 13, 2013

Two days late, because that is the way we rotate here, it’s another episode of our sporadic navel-gazing podcast.

In this episode we talked about:

• Our piece on the Invariant Subspace Problem (and the more recent news)
• Log-log! Who’s there? Not a power law!
• Our coverage of the new Mersenne Prime news, and our meta-coverage of everyone else’s coverage of it
• The good, the bad, and Gowers
• Interesting comments discussion on the ‘What is a mathematician’ post
• The first in Katie’s series of Open Season posts, on Singmaster’s Conjecture
• Please consider hosting the Carnival of Mathematics
• Mysterious upcoming project – watch this space



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Aperiodcast – Christiansmas Eve 2013

By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Katie Steckles. Posted January 13, 2013

After two months we’ve finally done another podcast! We completely forgot even the most rudimentary things about how to do a podcast. Sorry.

In this episode, we talked about:

• Mathematical Christmas cracker jokes
• Fractal Christmas trees
• Posts from MathsJam speakers – Tom Button on Radii of Polyhedra and Phil Harvey on AS Results and Batting Averages
• The Aperiodical’s Mathematical Survey
• Carnival of Mathematics 94

As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email to root@aperiodical.com or through our new, streamlined sending-something-in form.

If you’ve got some ideas for how we can do a better podcast, we’d be particularly keen to hear from you.



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Aperiodcast – MathsJam 2012!

By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 20, 2012

We took the opportunity of us all being in the same small slice of space and time (MathsJam, last weekend) to record another episode of our continuing audio part-work, The Aperiodcast.

We talked about:

• Christian’s Recreational Maths Seminar
• Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums to return; maths students sought to take part
• Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle – 12th Nov
• John McKenna’s helpful comment about our title font

As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email at root@aperiodical.com, our twitter @aperiodical, or whatever means you can think of to get in contact with us.



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Aperiodcast – 21/10/2012

By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett. Posted October 21, 2012

Here’s another episode of our irregular podcast about what’s been happening on the site.

This time, we talked about:

• Advances in pure nonsense
• Robert Schneider, Mathematical Musician/Musical Mathematician
• #MTT2K: Teachers critique Khan Academy
• Surds: what are they good for?
• Calculus of the Nervous System
• The new fonts on the site
• Christian’s new Aperiodical Round Up and Interesting Esoterica Summation
• Puzzlebomb October 2012

Christian apologises for the poor sound quality, an unavoidable consequence of being at the family home for the weekend without a proper microphone.

As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email at root@aperiodical.com, our twitter @aperiodical, or whatever means you can think of to get in contact with us.



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Aperiodcast – 09/09/2012

By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett. Posted September 9, 2012

Leaves are falling, a chilly wind is blowing and I can hear the distant thunder of undergrads’ hooves as they stampede towards my department. Yes, Summer is giving way to Autumn, so it’s time for another Aperiodcast. If you had “42 days” in the “when will the next Aperiodcast appear” sweepstake, report to the comments section below for your prize.

In this episode Peter and Christian were enjoying the comforts of their respective homes, while Katie was preparing to be sawn in half by a crazed Matt Parker at the British Science Festival. We talked about:

• Bill Thurston has died
• A glider on an aperiodic cellular automaton exists! (and the alternative  glider Tim Hutton posted on Google+)
• Knitty spiked icosahedron
• Puzzlebomb – September 2012
• Matt Parker needs help building a domino computer

As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits at root@aperiodical.com, and you still have eight days to submit items for the 90th Carnival of Mathematics, which you can do through our form.



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Aperiodcast – 29/07/2012

By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted July 29, 2012

Here’s the fifth Aperiodcast, covering what’s happened on the site basically since the start of Summer. Peter is busy doing work, so it was just Katie and me blathering on about a variety of things.



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Aperiodcast – 21/06/2012

By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett. Posted June 21, 2012

Here’s another Aperiodcast, covering things that happened on the site between the 4th and the 20th of June.



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