This is the first in a series of guest posts by David Benjamin, exploring the secrets of Pascal’s Triangle. The triangle of Natural numbers below contains the first seven rows of what is called Pascal’s triangle. Each row begins and ends with the number 1, and each of the remaining numbers, from the third row…
Here’s a roundup of some of the news stories from the world of maths in the month of November. Events Eugenie Hunsicker and collaborators have produced a film entitled “Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona”, which raises awareness of the impact of the pandemic on women in mathematics. The QE Prize…
Welcome to the 200th Carnival of Mathematics! Since it’s a special occasion, we’re hosting it right here at the Aperiodical, and presenting a round-up of some of our favourite blog posts, videos and content from the internet in the month of November 2021. The Carnival is hosted by a different blog each month, and brings…
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and Alom Shaha have organised a Month of Making – each day, a different person shows how to make a nice handmade Christmas gift. Today it’s our own Katie’s turn. Her gift is a simplified version of a kumihimo, a Japanese form of braid. There’s a little bit more…
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering celebrates innovation in engineering with an annual prize awarded to some of the world’s top engineers. Starting today, the QEPrize YouTube channel will be hosting a Month of Making, with a video each day supplied by a different STEM person (including some mathematicians!), encouraging you to make, instead of…
Here’s all the latest, and slightly later, news from the past month. Awards & Prizes Mathematician Professor Christina Pagel has been given a Special Recognition Award for Public Engagement in Science during the Covid 19 Pandemic by the BMJ (British Medical Journal). Throughout the pandemic, she’s been explaining and interpreting scientific papers, data, and news reports,…
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of October, is now online at Double Root. 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.