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    Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2025

    By Katie Steckles. Posted April 2, 2025

    Here’s a round-up of some mathematical and maths-related news that happened in March 2025 that we didn’t otherwise cover on the site.

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1E

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted April 2, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing picked the wrong week to give up calculus. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing mathematical things. It’s nice to finally be in a new month after April 1st was cancelled again, the 32-day March always catches…

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    A Gardner's Dozen in TikZ

    5. Mathematics of the “I Ching”

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted March 26, 2025

    Scientific American cover image and reproduced I Ching graphic.

    I’m aperiodically working my way through Martin Gardner’s cover images from Scientific American, the so-called Gardner’s Dozen, attempting to recreate these in the LaTeX drawing package TikZ. View the previous attempts. This time I chose January 1974. The cover image relates to the article ‘The combinatorial basis of the “I Ching,” the Chinese book of…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1D

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted March 26, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing just doesn’t know any more Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread delight and joy in doing maths for the sake of it. This week I have mainly been figuring out the mechanics of the Bokeh library so I can make it draw graphs. It’s…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing, Issue 1C

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted March 19, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing cannot currently take your call. Please leave a message after the beep. Beep. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread mathematical joy and delight. This week, I am mainly swearing at Scroggs and his fiendish crossnumber in the current issue of Chalkdust Magazine. He’s also written an…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1B

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted March 12, 2025

    Double Maths First Thing thinks ISO8601’s great Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread mathematical joy — I almost misspelt “mathematical” as “mayhem”, so let’s have a bit of that, too. I spent much of the weekend with a secret cabal of mathematical musicians at an undisclosed…

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    Double Maths First Thing

    Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1A

    By Colin Beveridge. Posted March 5, 2025

    DMFT is six months old! It’ll probably be walking soon. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing maths, for any reason or for none. I have taken on a slightly silly, but at the same time DEADLY SERIOUS challenge to become good…

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