Doodal is a happy little toy which helps you draw fractals. This video explains how: It’s a Flash applet, which means it doesn’t work on mobile devices :( Play Doodal
Oh, Stephen
Professor Stephen Hawking’s name appeared in the papers recently next to some nonsense formula about football, promoting a betting company. Even you, Stephen? Is it as bad as it looks?
Vi Hart has 3D printed a hypercube made of monkeys that has the symmetries of the Quaternion group
Group theorists, often interested principally in the abstract, have been known to neglect the vital importance of producing funky gizmos that exhibit the symmetries they have theorized about. Internet maths celeb Vi Hart, working with mathematician Henry Segerman, has addressed this absence in the case of $Q_8$, the quaternion group. The object they’ve designed is four-dimensional…
Aperiodical Round Up 10: a rathole down which valuable mathematical effort is being poured
The tenth instalment of weird and wonderful maths links from around the internet, curated by Christian.
Podcasts for a university mathematics student
Yesterday, I was asked by Mariana Farinha for podcasts I would recommend to a college student of Mathematics. I assume this is college in the American sense, i.e. university. Though targetting an audience is usually a broad business, so with a suitable margin of error I replied with a few, retweeted the request and a…
The Hidden Maths of Eurovision
Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics?
Matt Parker talks percentages
If anyone caught BBC1’s consumer moanfest Watchdog this week, they may have been pleasantly surprised to see Aperiodicobber ((The internet assures me that ‘cobber’ is Australian slang for ‘friend’.)) Matt Parker featured in the show. Following a segment about a UK sports chain and its shocking use of the classic ‘UP TO 70% OFF’ ruse, they…