I’m aperiodically working my way through Martin Gardner’s cover images from Scientific American, the so-called Gardner’s Dozen, attempting to recreate these in the LaTeX drawing package TikZ. View the previous attempts. This time I chose January 1974. The cover image relates to the article ‘The combinatorial basis of the “I Ching,” the Chinese book of…
Double Maths First Thing just doesn’t know any more Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread delight and joy in doing maths for the sake of it. This week I have mainly been figuring out the mechanics of the Bokeh library so I can make it draw graphs. It’s…
Double Maths First Thing cannot currently take your call. Please leave a message after the beep. Beep. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread mathematical joy and delight. This week, I am mainly swearing at Scroggs and his fiendish crossnumber in the current issue of Chalkdust Magazine. He’s also written an…
Double Maths First Thing thinks ISO8601’s great Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread mathematical joy — I almost misspelt “mathematical” as “mayhem”, so let’s have a bit of that, too. I spent much of the weekend with a secret cabal of mathematical musicians at an undisclosed…
DMFT is six months old! It’ll probably be walking soon. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing maths, for any reason or for none. I have taken on a slightly silly, but at the same time DEADLY SERIOUS challenge to become good…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of February 2025, is now online at Flying Colours Maths. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own Aperiodical. See our Carnival of Mathematics page for more information.
Here’s a round-up of a few news items from the last couple of months not otherwise covered on the site.