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    \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Howie Hua

    By Katie Steckles. Posted December 27, 2023

    Photo of Howie Hua sitting by the sea. He is a smiling Asian man wearing a grey hoodie

    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical video and streaming channels from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the channel and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Howie Hua, who runs a TikTok channel sharing short videos to help people understand mathematics.

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    Podcasting about: The Function Room

    By Katie Steckles. Posted December 15, 2023

    Function Room podcast logo, including an open curly brace around the words 'the function room' in yellow on a dark blue background, and underneath that '{CHATS ABOUT MATHS}'

    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Colm O’Regan, author, comedian and broadcaster, whose podcast The Function Room invites mathematicians on to tell him something interesting.

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    \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: SparksMaths

    By Katie Steckles. Posted December 13, 2023

    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical video and streaming channels from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the channel and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Ben Sparks, the author of the SparksMaths YouTube channel, who shares recordings of live Geogebra builds illustrating various maths…

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    The Double Back puzzle is a nice mix of Towers of Hanoi and Solitaire

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted December 10, 2023

    This post is both a video and text. The content is largely the same in both versions, so you can pick one to look at. I’d like to show you a puzzle, or game for one person, that Ed Kirkby came up with. Ed showed this to me at the Big MathsJam gathering last year.…

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    Mathematical Gift Guide 2023

    By Katie Steckles. Posted December 7, 2023

    Since it’s the time of year when you might be looking for mathematical gifts to buy for your friends, colleagues and loves ones, I thought I’d share some recommendations and suggestions for places to find gifts online.

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    Aperiodical News Roundup – November 2023

    By Katie Steckles. Posted December 5, 2023

    Here’s a selection of mathematical news from the month of November that we didn’t otherwise mention on the site. Proof News The dream team of Tim Gowers, Ben Green, Freddie Manners and Terence Tao (pictured above) claim to have solved the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture (originally conjectured by Hungarian mathematician Katalin Marton), which is described by…

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    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Mathematics 222

    By Katie Steckles. Posted December 4, 2023

    Screenshot of John's blog

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of November 2023, is now online at John D Cook’s 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.

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