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    #mathober 2025

    By Katie Steckles. Posted October 2, 2025

    A list of mathober prompts shown in two columns: Day 1: Link Day 2: Deviation Day 3: Polyhedron Day 4: Strongly Day 5: Digraph Sink Day 6: Partial Sum Day 7: Notation Day 8: Octagonal Heptagonal Day 9: Chi Day 10: Stellations Day 11: Orthogonal Polynomial Day 12: Monotonic Day 13: Sporadic Group Day 14: Augmented Matrix Day 15: Chord Day 16: Faithful Day 17: Wheel Day 18: Primitive Day 19: Domain Day 20: Reye Configuration Day 21: Sawtooth Day 22: Odious Day 23: Jacobian Day 24: Number Field Day 25: Wedge Day 26: Amalgamation Day 27: Bidiminished Day 28: Recursion Day 29: Hexyl Day 30: Minor Day 31: Central

    We’ve gone crashing into October and that means it’s also #Mathober, an annual maths/art celebration taking place on the internet. If you’re into maths or art, or both, and would like to try producing something creative this month, on an informal schedule, #mathober provides a structure for you to do that.

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 38

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted October 1, 2025

    DMFT wants to be in the room where it happens Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and happiness in doing maths, solving puzzles and generally figuring stuff out. We went to see Hamilton (the musical, not Academical) in the cinema at the weekend – I…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 37

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted September 24, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing didn’t know the letters went that big. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share the joy and delight I take in figuring stuff out and solving puzzles. This weekend just gone, I went to the not-yet-open MathsWorld venue in Southwark to hang out…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 36

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted September 17, 2025

    There is a good service on all DMFT lines Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share the joy, love and creativity of doing exactly the right maths for you. This week, I have mainly been cursing the name of Scroggs and his cursed Chalkdust crossnumber. (It’s traditional,…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 35

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted September 10, 2025

    DMFT turns around, and every now and then it falls apart Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in mathematics. I’m tutoring a bit of Further Core Pure 1 this year, and it was quite instructive to do a paper and find that I’m…

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    Review: The Pseudorandom Ensemble at TMiP25

    By Tom Briggs. Posted September 3, 2025

    Four people, wearing dark jeans and black T-shirts with white text saying (respectively) "{", "pseudo", "random", and "}". From the left, the first person is singing into a microphone; the second is sitting behind a keyboard that they are playing, the third is singing into a microphone held in a stand, and the fourth is looking at a music stand whilst playing a tambourine. The foursome are standing in front of a brick wall that is painted white but lit with blue spotlights. An overheard projector is visible, as is the text it is projecting in white on a black background: "he's number 1, he transcends the cardinals." Cables snake and coil across the ground, and in the foreground is the out-of-focus back of someone's head.

    The number one component of music that really gets my attention is Brian May plays guitar, but a very close second is clever lyrics. The first morning of 2025’s Talking Maths in Public (TMiP) conference, from waking up, through carving myself a slice of scrambled egg at the breakfast buffet, up until the blessed relief…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 34

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted September 3, 2025

    DMFT rocked. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician, on a renewed mission to spread the joy and delight in maths after a tremendous few days at the Talking Maths in Public conference. I listed some highlights here, and decided that rather than try to fit into job-shaped holes, I shall continue…

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