Looking for something mathematical to amuse you, give your puzzling brain a workout or otherwise satisfy your mathematical curiosity every day for the next month? Look no further – here’s a round-up of our favourite mathsy advent calendars for 2022.
Does this picture make you think of Srinvasa Ramanujan? I’m always fascinated by the pace and range of little conversations with my seven-year-old son that wander in and out of maths. Let me tell you how we got there during a five minute chat while leaving the house and walking to school this morning.
Some thinking aloud about what’s happening on social media in my world, I hope you don’t mind.
This month’s Carnival is hosted right here at The Aperiodical, and rounds up interesting internet maths content from the month of October 2022.
I’ve put together a series of online public maths presentations, to take place in the last couple of weeks of term before Christmas. This came about after a few people on the Talking Maths in Public WhatsApp group complained that we can hardly ever take up requests for a speaker to deliver a fun maths…
Research AI research company DeepMind said that their AlphaTensor system has discovered a new way to multiply matrices, citing this as the first such advance since the Strassen algorithm was proposed in 1969. AlphaTensor found thousands of algorithms for multiplying matrices of different sizes, but most were not better than the state of the art.…
Here’s a roundup of mathematical news stories we didn’t get round to writing about yet this month.