This is an old video I made showing how to make a Slinky look like a Klein bottle. It’s the easiest way of making a Klein bottle that I know of!
Introducing The Aperiodical
You may have noticed a new look here on Travels in a Mathematical World. For a while this blog was designed to look like a page from my website peterrowlett.net, but now it is different. This is because I have joined Katie Steckles and Christian Perfect in a collaborative blogging endeavour we’re calling The Aperiodical.…
The Aperiodical
Welcome to The Aperiodical. The Aperiodical is a new maths magazine/blog aimed at people interested in mathematics who want to read stuff. We post news stories related to maths, opinion pieces, interesting things we’ve found, accounts of monthly MathsJams, maths videos, and feature articles, as well as posts from our own blogs. We also host the…
Klein: outside the bottle
If you’ve heard of Felix Klein, it’s probably due to the Klein bottle, that strange four-dimensional object that is the subject of a new video here on The Aperiodical starring Katie Steckles and Matt Parker. Who is Klein and, apart from the bottle, what did he do? Klein’s Times obituary records that he would point…
Top N Facts about the Klein Bottle
In honour of Felix Klein’s birthday, Matt Parker and Katie Steckles investigate the amazing surface which bears his name.
Manchester MathsJam April 2012 Recap
The turnout this month was slightly lower than usual, but many of our regulars were there and we had the chance to have some good discussions and really get into things.
Math/Maths 93: TW’s School of Hard Sums
A new episode of the Math/Maths Podcast has been released. A conversation about mathematics between the UK and USA from Pulse-Project.org. This week Samuel and Peter spoke about Dara O Briain’s School of Hard Sums with ‘Maths Advisor’ and special guest Thomas Woolley, also with each other about: The game of go as a complex…