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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    A visit to The Mathematikum in Giessen

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted August 8, 2023

    Catenary curve made of foam blocks standing.

    My son and I visited The Mathematikum in Giessen. This is well worth a visit, we did it as a day trip by train from holiday in Frankfurt, which worked well because the museum is close to the railway station. The Mathematikum specialises in ‘hands on, minds on’ interactive activities, and we spent about 5…

    Irregulars

    Review: Andrew Pontzen’s The Universe in a Box

    By Elliott Baxby. Posted August 8, 2023

    Image of the cover of The Universe in a Box by Andrew Pontzen, which has the subtitle 'A New Cosmic History' and has a diagram of a cube containing a silver sphere

    We asked guest author Elliott Baxby to take a look at Andrew Pontzen’s latest book, The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History. Ever since I became interested in mathematics, I have always wanted to learn more about science. I love mathematics, and I can easily spend most of the day reading about it…

    Blackboard Bold, Events

    Daily LEGO maths prompts every day in August

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 7, 2023

    Mathematician and ninja mathematical-thinking-prompter Alison Kiddle has been posting an image each day for the whole of August, each prompting some kind of mathematical question or discussion.

    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Bouton numbers: a new integer sequence

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted August 6, 2023

    In the 1901 paper that named the game Nim and provided its mathematical analysis, Charles Bouton defined “safe combinations”, positions that if you leave the game in this state, your opponent cannot win. In combinatorial game theory, these are \(\mathcal{P}\) positions (the previous player has already won), as opposed to \(\mathcal{N}\) positions (the next player…

    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Mathematics 218

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 5, 2023

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of July 2023, is now online at Tony’s Maths 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.

    News Roundup

    Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2023

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 1, 2023

    Here’s some mathematical news that didn’t make it on to the site otherwise this month. Maths News There’s been more abc conjecture drama: Peter Scholze and Jakob Stix are in line for a ¥140m (around £766k) prize for their paper pointing out the flaw in Mochizuki’s claimed abc proof – if they publish it in…

    Mathematical Objects

    Mathematical Objects: Guitar with Sam Hartburn

    By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted July 28, 2023

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    A conversation about mathematics inspired by a guitar. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Sam Hartburn. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | List of episodes

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