Peter suggested it, so Katie had to do it: here’s a video of Katie and fellow maths/Marvel fan Jimi watching through the end credits to Spiderman: No Way Home (warning: contains spoilers for the film) and talking about the mathematical things found therein.
Integer sequence review: A101544
It’s nine years since the first integer sequence review, and six years since the last one. We’ve grown as people, and in CLP’s case, grown people. The world has changed, but our love for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences hasn’t. A101544 Smallest permutation of the natural numbers with $a(3k-2) + a(3k-1) = a(3k)$, $k…
What does DALL·E ‘think’ mathematics and a mathematician looks like?
DALL·E is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that has been designed to generate new images given a text prompt. It’s very much like doing a Google image search with one very important difference: DALL·E doesn’t try to find existing images to match your query, but creates a handful of new ones that it hopes will…
customdice: a new LaTeX package for drawing dice
I made a new LaTeX package for drawing dice, customdice.
Sequences in the classroom
Guest author David Benjamin shares some of his favourite ways to use sequences in a teaching context. As a maths teacher, I’ve found that sequences are a great way to engage and inspire mathematical reasoning. I thought I’d share some examples of sequences, and sequence-related activities, I’ve used with success in the past.
Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2022
Here’s a roundup of some mathematical news we didn’t yet report from the last month. The makers of documentary film ‘Olga Ladyzhenskaya’, detailing the life of the Russian mathematician, have released a five-minute trailer giving a flavour of the film. (via ICM Intelligencer) Research According to a new ArXiV paper, the triple bubble conjecture (a…
Carnival of Mathematics 207
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of July and hosted by Sam, is now online at SamHartburn.co.uk. 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.