To celebrate 14th March (π day), MathsCity in Leeds is hosting a competition to celebrate everyone’s favourite geometrical shape whose circumference is π times its diameter: the circle.
MathsCity hosts freehand circle-drawing competition for π day
Carnival of Mathematics 202
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of February, is now online at Fractal Kitty. 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.
ICM 2022 will not be held in Russia – it’ll be virtual, and free
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…
Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2022
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…
Introducing hexboard – a LaTeX package for drawing games of Hex
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?
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…