Here’s a round-up of a few newsy things we didn’t cover on the site in the month of December.
Aperiodical News Roundup – December 2023
Carnival of Mathematics 223
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of December 2023, is now online at George Shakan’s Data Science and Math 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.
Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2024
The UK Government have announced the latest list of honours, and we’ve taken a look for the particularly mathematical entries. Here is the selection for this year – if you spot any more, let us know in the comments and we’ll add to the list. Get the full list from gov.uk. As well as the…
\(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Howie Hua
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.
Podcasting about: The Function Room
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.
\(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: SparksMaths
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…
The Double Back puzzle is a nice mix of Towers of Hanoi and Solitaire
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.…