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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Social media and mathematical chat

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted November 18, 2024

    A brief update about the state of social media. A couple of years ago, I wrote about the decline of Twitter and how I was going to consciously shift my activity to Mathstodon. Just over a year ago, we launched The Finite Group, a members’ club for mathsy people, partly inspired by the collapse of…

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    cp's mathem-o-blog

    Any way you cut it

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 16, 2024

    A 4×3 grid of squares. Each square is 70mm×70mm.

    I’d like to cut a rectangle into a 3×4 grid of squares. To minimise the number of cuts, should I cut three long strips first, or four short strips? Does it matter?

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue A

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted November 13, 2024

    Double Maths First Thing is where there area 10 kinds of people: those who understand hexadecimal, and F others. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share joy and delight in maths, beyond and instead of the test. Around here, we count in hexadecimal. My big news! This…

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    Mathematical Objects

    Mathematical Objects: Parallelepiped with Ayliean MacDonald

    By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted November 8, 2024

    Small battered parallelepiped made of cardboard with "Ayliean 9 3\4" written on it.

    A conversation about mathematics inspired by a very special parallelepiped. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Ayliean. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 9

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted November 6, 2024

    Double Maths First Thing is like a diet MathsJam, some of the flavour but only a hint of the joy. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread delight in my beloved subject. I spent the weekend at Big MathsJam in Staffordshire and gorged myself full of puzzles,…

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    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Maths 233

    By Katie Steckles. Posted November 4, 2024

    Screenshot of Carnival of Mathematics 233 on the Math Intersect Programming blog.

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of October 2024, is now online at Math Intersect Programming. 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.

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    News Roundup

    Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2024

    By Katie Steckles. Posted November 3, 2024

    Image of Marin Mersenne, made up to look like the partying emoji with a little hat and a blower and confetti around him because he's celebrating

    Here’s a roundup of some of the maths-related news from this month we didn’t otherwise cover here!

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