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    Hidden in Plane Sight

    By Elliott Baxby. Posted April 18, 2024

    This is a guest post by Elliott Baxby, a maths undergraduate student who wants to share an appreciation of geometrical proofs. I remember the days well when I first learnt about loci and constructions – what a wonderful thing. Granted, I love doing them now; to be able to appreciate how Euclid developed his incredible…

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    Podcasting about: It’s Not Just Numbers podcast

    By Katie Steckles. Posted April 12, 2024

    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 Marcello Seri and Marit van Straaten from the Bernoulli Institute at the University of Groningen, about their podcast, It’s Not Just Numbers.

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    A Gardner's Dozen in TikZ

    3. Graeco-Latin square

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted April 10, 2024

    10 by 10 orthogonal Latin square using coloured squares.

    With the emphasis on occasionally, I’m occasionally working to (sort of) recreate Martin Gardner’s cover images from Scientific American, the so-called Gardner’s Dozen. This time I’m looking at the cover image from the November 1959 issue. The column is ‘How three modern mathematicians disproved a celebrated conjecture of Leonhard Euler’, about the so-called Euler’s Spoilers,…

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    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Mathematics 226

    By Katie Steckles. Posted April 5, 2024

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of March 2024, is now online at Tom Rocks Maths. 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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    Podcasting about: Chalkboard Ultra podcast

    By Katie Steckles. Posted March 15, 2024

    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 Louie and Sam, two students at Durham University, who host a podcast there for their uni’s student radio station Purple Radio.

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    Finite Group: update and free livestream

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted March 7, 2024

    Finite Group Live chats with cool maths people Join us on Patreon/Discord: finitegroup.co.uk Next Livestream: Weds 27th Mar 5-6pm

    A few months ago a group of us launched a membership club, The Finite Group, which you can join! A big update is the lineup — your membership now supports the work of and gives you access to content from mathematician and TikTok star Ayliean MacDonald, as well as Chalkdust’s Matthew Scroggs and The Aperiodical’s…

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    -e^iπ to Watch

    \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Stephen Wolfram on Twitch

    By Katie Steckles. Posted March 6, 2024

    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 Wolfram about their CEO Stephen Wolfram and his Twitch streaming channel.

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