In recent days there have been calls for the International Mathematical Union (IMU) to not hold in the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Russia in July 2022 due to the developing situation in Ukraine. This is in addition to previous complaints that Russia is not a safe place to host the ICM, particularly because…
Here’s a roundup of mathematical things that have happened in February 2022. Ukraine The deeply troubling and developing situation in Ukraine has implications for the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) due to take place in St. Petersburg, Russia in July. A group of Ukrainian mathematicians has issued a call for mathematicians to boycott the…
Chris Sangwin and I wrote a LaTeX package for drawing Hex boards and games called hexboard. It can produce diagrams like this. First: why? Then: how do you use it?
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.
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…
Here’s a roundup of some of the mathematical things that happened in the first month of the year.
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…