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…
Aperiodvent, Day 17: Old Pappus’ Book of Mathematical Calligraphy
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…
Aperiodvent, Day 16: A tessellating bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhILAN9vOY&feature=youtu.be If the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” had gone up to day 16, that line might have gone “sixteen teals a-tessellating”, and it might look like the above video, made by Chris Watson. Chris has made some worksheets which can help you make your own tessellations. He also sells his own work at tessellationart.com.…
Video: Mathematical Christmas Present Wrapping
If you were wondering what happened with all the left-over wrapping paper from this morning’s post about wallpaper groups, Katie has made a YouTube video demonstrating some mathematical quirks of gift wrapping. Enjoy!
Christmas Symme-tree
Christmas wrapping paper is sold in thousands of different variations, including plain, coloured, patterned, foiled and even flock, but one thing it’ll have in common is that it will repeat whatever pattern it has, regularly across the design. I’m interested in symmetry, and was intrigued to find a curious fact about the symmetries of such…
Aperiodvent, Day 15: Mathematiques Modernes – A + B = C
This is part of the Aperiodical Advent Calendar. We’ll be posting a new surprise for you each morning until Christmas!
Aperiodvent, Day 14: Which Springer-Verlag graduate text in mathematics are you?
Today we can put to rest a question that’s troubled many a mathematician: which Spinger-Verlag graduate text in mathematics are you? Answer a few questions about yourself, and you’ll find out which of the little yellow books you are. This is part of the Aperiodical Advent Calendar. We’ll be posting a new surprise for you each morning until…