A conversation about mathematics inspired by a slinky. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Mathematical Objects: Slinky
Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2022
In all the Jubilee fun, you may have missed the announcement of the UK Government’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Here’s our selection of particularly mathematical entries for this year – any more, let us know in the comments and we’ll add to the list. Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, UK Statistics Authority. Made Companion…
Carnival of Mathematics 205
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May and hosted by Rob, is now online at Rob Eby’s Math Blog. 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.
Mathematical Objects: Nodal cubic with Angela Tabiri
A conversation about mathematics inspired by the nodal cubic. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. We go closer to the cutting edge of research than usual in this chat with Angela Tabiri about her PhD research. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes
Prime Run
Here’s a game I’ve been trying to make for a while. For a while I’ve had a hunch that there’s fun to be had in moving between numbers by using something related to the prime numbers. Over the years I’ve tried out a few different ideas, but none of them ever worked out – they…
Didn’t Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Every now and then a phrase pops into my head and won’t leave until I write it down or tell it to someone else. One day the little voice in my head suggested putting “Didn’t” before the classic series of maths textbooks, Graduate Texts in Mathematics. So I found a cover of a GTIM book,…
What we call mathematics
I notice in the news is an issue of whether we should have a different name for early maths. It’s actually quite interesting – and quite a problem – the different things we call ‘mathematics’.