Between the three Aperiodical editors (myself, Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett), there’s a developing tradition of excellent mathematical gift-giving. This year, Christian has excelled himself by designing and creating a brilliant mathematical hoodie, which features a meme about an in-joke (and who can resist either a meme or an in-joke?)
Since we know you’ll enjoy looking at some weird and wonderful illusion videos, we thought we’d share that the Best Illusion of the Year Contest has posted its 2021 finalists, and you can vote for the winner on their website.
This is the first in a series of guest posts by David Benjamin, exploring the secrets of Pascal’s Triangle. The triangle of Natural numbers below contains the first seven rows of what is called Pascal’s triangle. Each row begins and ends with the number 1, and each of the remaining numbers, from the third row…
Here’s a roundup of some of the news stories from the world of maths in the month of November. Events Eugenie Hunsicker and collaborators have produced a film entitled “Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona”, which raises awareness of the impact of the pandemic on women in mathematics. The QE Prize…
Welcome to the 200th Carnival of Mathematics! Since it’s a special occasion, we’re hosting it right here at the Aperiodical, and presenting a round-up of some of our favourite blog posts, videos and content from the internet in the month of November 2021. The Carnival is hosted by a different blog each month, and brings…
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and Alom Shaha have organised a Month of Making – each day, a different person shows how to make a nice handmade Christmas gift. Today it’s our own Katie’s turn. Her gift is a simplified version of a kumihimo, a Japanese form of braid. There’s a little bit more…
The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering celebrates innovation in engineering with an annual prize awarded to some of the world’s top engineers. Starting today, the QEPrize YouTube channel will be hosting a Month of Making, with a video each day supplied by a different STEM person (including some mathematicians!), encouraging you to make, instead of…