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    Arty Maths

    Dés-gravité by Suzy Lelièvre

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 16, 2011

    There isn’t much maths at all going on here but I really love these dice.

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    Arty Maths

    10,000 by Francis Hollenkamp

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 14, 2011

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    Arty Maths

    Woolly Thoughts: in pursuit of crafty mathematics

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 7, 2011

    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

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    Arty Maths

    Cloud Cities by Tomás Saraceno

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 2, 2011

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    Arty Maths

    “11:11” collection by Winde Rienstra

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted November 1, 2011

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    Oh, email

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted October 30, 2011

    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…

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    How many barleycorn in a giant slipper?

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted October 23, 2011

    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…

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