Describing itself as ‘the Sierpinski Triangle page to end all Sierpinski Triangle pages‘, this webpage certainly contains an amazing amount of information, diagrams and code to study and explore the well-known equilateral fractal. It goes on forever! (The fractal, not the page – although it does seem like it might never end). This is part of the…
Today’s advent calendar window is covered in snowflakes! These snowflakes aren’t your usual sort, however – they’re made up of thousands of toothpicks arranged into E shapes. Hey, nobody mixes metaphors like mathematicians. The image above shows 1,124 E-shapes arranged rather artfully. 1,124 is the 32nd entry of the sequence A161330, which lists how many shapes…
This is part of the Aperiodical Advent Calendar. We’ll be posting a new surprise for you each morning until Christmas!
COMPETITION DEADLINE EXTENDED – SEE BELOW! To celebrate the year end, as well as our daily Advent Calendar posts, we’re also running a little competition – last year we did a pun competition, and this year it’s something a bit more crafty – well, it’s a knitting competition in which the knitting is optional.
Ever wanted to look up a number and find out all kinds of things about it (like, if you’re making a mathematical advent calendar and want interesting facts about the date each day)? No longer do you have to sift through all the tedious non-maths facts you get if you look up a number on…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of November, and compiled by the team at Ganit Charcha to celebrate the birthday of Srinivasa Ramanujan, is now online at Ganit Charcha. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, including some from our own…
Mathematician and part-time calligrapher Andrew Stacey has assembled a beautiful guide to mathematical calligraphy, from the way mathematicians use notation to how different types of symbols can be written using calligraphy techniques. So you can sign all your Christmas cards with maths notation, and keep them looking pretty at the same time! This is part of the…