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    Mathematical Objects

    Mathematical Objects: Fingers with Ben Orlin

    By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted July 15, 2022

    fingers

    A conversation about mathematics inspired by some fingers. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Ben Orlin. Ben’s new book is Math Games with Bad Drawings. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes

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    Some Puzzles I Made For My Students

    By Katie Steckles. Posted July 13, 2022

    Still from Die Hard With A Vengeance, showing Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson and some water jugs

    This semester I’ve been teaching a module that covers a couple of different maths topics, and have been setting little puzzles for my students to complement what they’re learning – and some of them have been quite fun to write and play with. I thought I’d share some of them here, so you can enjoy…

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    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Mathematics 206

    By Katie Steckles. Posted July 4, 2022

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of June and hosted by Stormy, is now online at Storm Bear World. 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.

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    Aperiodical News Roundup – June 2022

    By Katie Steckles. Posted July 3, 2022

    Community News The Spectra Math (@LGBTMath) account has announced that the AMS (American Mathematical Society) has instituted a new policy, based on consultations with Spectra, concerning author name changes. The policy is intended to make its journals more inclusive, especially of trans and non-binary researchers. The policy seeks to provide a simple and efficient way…

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    Mathematical Objects

    Mathematical Objects: Quarto

    By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted July 1, 2022

    Quarto board and pieces

    A conversation about mathematics inspired by the game Quarto. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes

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    Travels in a Mathematical World

    What does craiyon/DALL·E mini ‘think’ mathematics and mathematicians look like?

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted June 20, 2022

    DALLE Mini prompts for mathematics, mathematician and 21st century mathematician

    You may have seen DALL·E mini posts appearing on social media for a little while now – it’s been viral for a couple of weeks, according to Know Your Meme. It’s an artificial intelligence model for producing images, operating as an open-source project mimicking the DALL·E system from company OpenAI but trained on a smaller…

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    Mathematical Objects

    Mathematical Objects: Slinky

    By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted June 17, 2022

    slinky

    A conversation about mathematics inspired by a slinky. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS | List of episodes

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