There isn’t much maths at all going on here but I really love these dice.
10,000 by Francis Hollenkamp
Woolly Thoughts: in pursuit of crafty mathematics
They got my maths in their art, so this is sort of the opposite of what this column is about, but it’s pretty nonetheless. Woolly Thoughts
Cloud Cities by Tomás Saraceno
“11:11” collection by Winde Rienstra
Oh, email
I feel, increasingly, that I am not coping well with my email. I just found some data to illuminate this. So here is what has happened to the raw number of emails sent and received over the past eight years. This year so far (up to yesterday, the 29th October) I have 19357 emails, more…
How many barleycorn in a giant slipper?
On Thursday this week you, as I, may have awoken to giant slipper news. The story, that Tom Boddingham ordered a size 14.5 slipper but was sent a size 1,450 after manufacturers failed to spot a decimal point in his order, was widely reported. I first saw it on the Telegraph site but they’ve done…