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    Carnival of Mathematics

    Carnival of Mathematics 201

    By Katie Steckles. Posted February 9, 2022

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the months of December and January, is now online at Ganit Charcha. 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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    Pascal’s Triangle and its Secrets

    Numbers and number patterns in Pascal’s triangle

    By David Benjamin. Posted February 4, 2022

    This is the fourth in a series of guest posts by David Benjamin, exploring the secrets of Pascal’s Triangle. Triangles and fractals If we highlight the multiples of any of the Natural numbers $\geq 2$ in Pascal’s triangle then they create a pattern of inverted triangles. The images above are evocative of the Sierpinski sieve (also known…

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    News Roundup

    Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2022

    By Katie Steckles. Posted February 2, 2022

    Here’s a roundup of some of the mathematical things that happened in the first month of the year.

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    A Mathematician’s Guide to Wordle

    By Ali Lloyd. Posted February 1, 2022

    We invited mathematician and wordplay fan Ali Lloyd to share his thoughts on hit internet word game phenomenon Wordle. If you’re not familiar with the game, we recommend you go and have a play first. When I first saw Wordle I said what I saw many other people subsequently say: “Oh, so it’s a bit…

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    Interviews, Podcasting About, Podcasts

    Podcasting About: Count Me In with Della and Deanna

    By Katie Steckles. Posted January 28, 2022

    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Della Dumbaugh and Deanna Haunsperger about their podcast, Count Me In with Della and Deanna.

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    Podcasting About: Infinitely Irrational

    By Katie Steckles. Posted January 21, 2022

    Infinitely Irrational Podcast logo. The words 'Infinitely Irrational' in a cool space font hang above a futuristic purple landscape with a grid on the floor and vague mountains in the distance

    In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Nathalie Vega-Rhodes, host of the Infinitely Irrational podcast.

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    cp's mathem-o-blog

    This island is big enough for the both of us

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted January 16, 2022

    I’ve made a little game.

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