This is a guest post by Elinor, who’s been collecting her favourite maths art from the month of March. March is a month of change in the UK: the days get longer, the temperature is slowly creeping upwards, and we start to believe that spring may be arriving. Through this month of change I have…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of March 2025, is now online at Fractal Kitty. 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.
Double Maths First Thing only exports lost puffins Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight, and to find excuses to do interesting maths. (If you could use an interesting mathematician — for the purpose of solving problems, slinging code, writing content or making the…
Here’s a round-up of some mathematical and maths-related news that happened in March 2025 that we didn’t otherwise cover on the site.
Double Maths First Thing picked the wrong week to give up calculus. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing mathematical things. It’s nice to finally be in a new month after April 1st was cancelled again, the 32-day March always catches…
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…