Earlier today, I tweeted about my exciting new Pi search website, which lets you search for any string of digits within the infinite decimal expansion of π. If you haven’t seen it, go and check it out now.
Searching for the truth
Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2022
Here’s a roundup of mathematical things that have happened in March 2022.
John Conway and his fruitful fractions
Following on from the series of ‘Pascal’s Triangle and its Secrets‘ posts, guest author David Benjamin shares another delightful piece of mathematics – this time relating to prime numbers. The Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (
Now I’m calculating with constructive reals!
A while ago I made myself a calculator. I don’t know if anyone else uses it, but for the particular way I like doing calculations, it’s been really good. You’d think that if a calculator does anything, it should perform calculations correctly. But all calculators get things wrong sometimes! This is the story of how…
British Science Week mathematicians poster competition
I wrote a mathematics-themed competition for British Science Week, which is a UK-wide event lasting ten days taking place this month. The competition calls for individuals or groups to research the life and/or work of a mathematician and produce a poster to share their findings. The six mathematicians available to choose from are:
MathsJam Leuven recap, February 2022
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a MathsJam recap, but having restarted the MathsJam in Leuven after a hiatus, Dieter was too excited not to share what they’d been up to. The first (re)edition of the Maths Jam in Leuven (Historic university city in Belgium) was a tiny success. I brought a couple of physical copies of…
Each Edge Peach Pear Plum
At the 2021 UK MathsJam Gathering, I gave a talk on a subject that has bothered me more than is reasonable: the graph-theoretic layout of the narrative of the baby’s book Each Peach Pear Plum, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. It’s one of my son’s favourite books to fall asleep to. It was his older…