# Fi-Bee-onacci

Andrew Stacey: I have a confession to make that would probably get me thrown out of every respectable Mathematics Society – were I to belong to one. I am not a fan of the Fibonacci sequence. Neither am I keen on the golden ratio. It’s not even transcendental. It’s not really their fault, it’s just…

# The permutation clock

I recently had an idea: map the Unix time (seconds since 1st January 1970) to shufflings of a deck of cards. Each second would correspond to a different ordering of the 52 cards. I wanted to think about how mind-bogglingly huge $52!$ is: $52!$ seconds is more than $2 \times 10^{60}$ years. So even if…

# Aperiodical Round Up 11: more than you could ever need, want or be able to know

Hello, my name’s Christian Lawson-Perfect and my main mathematical interest is “everything”. Before The Aperiodical existed as its own thing, the only outlet I had for my mathematical eclecticism was a series of posts on the Acme Science blog called Aperiodical Round-Up. Eventually I stopped writing them, as work and family took up more of…

# Mathematical Objects: Twenty Pence coin

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Twenty Pence coin. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Android | Google Podcasts | RSS | List of episodes