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: Issue 1B
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…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1A
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…
Carnival of Maths 237
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.
Aperiodical News Roundup – Jan & Feb 2025
Here’s a round-up of a few news items from the last couple of months not otherwise covered on the site.
Review: The Big Bang of Numbers by Manil Suri
This is a review of the book The Big Bang of Numbers by Manil Suri. We were kindly sent a copy of the book to look at, and Ashleigh Ratcliffe shares her thoughts. In this book, Suri sets out to build the whole of modern mathematics from its foundations, and has chosen to do this by mirroring the Christian…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 19
Double Maths First Thing got nerdsniped by the Parker Square Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in doing maths for its own sake. For example, I coded up a trammel in Geogebra after seeing this video. It’s fun to play with the parameters. Links James…