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?
Introducing hexboard – a LaTeX package for drawing games of Hex
Carnival of Mathematics 201
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.
Numbers and number patterns in Pascal’s triangle
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…
Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2022
Here’s a roundup of some of the mathematical things that happened in the first month of the year.
A Mathematician’s Guide to Wordle
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…
Podcasting About: Count Me In with Della and Deanna
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.
Podcasting About: Infinitely Irrational
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.