Double Maths First Thing is brought to you by ibuprofen and grandparents taking the kids Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share and spread the joy in doing maths for its own sake. It’s half term down here in Dorset, which puts my already-tenuous grasp of what…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3B
Double Maths First Thing is beautiful, it’s simple and it’s wrong Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share the joy and love that comes from doing maths. As the amazing Jo Sibley says, if you love someone, set them a tricky maths problem. I had probably the…
Let’s go to the beach and make an aperiodic tiling!
Somehow, I’ve been awarded the MEGA grant, from Matt Parker and Talking Maths in Public, for a ridiculous public maths project. I’d better get on that, then! My plan is to go to the beach and use great big cookie cutters in the shape of the spectre aperiodic monotile to cover as much space as…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3A
Double Maths First Thing almost forgot to put this line in! Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing mathematical things. This week I am mainly getting to grips with reluctantly becoming treasurer for my Toastmasters club. They’re letting me loose with…
Books to Recommend to Maths Students
I was asked recently by a first-year maths undergrad student if I could recommend any books on problem-solving, as they were hoping to develop their problem-solving skills. Asking around some maths communication colleagues has resulted in an impressive list of recommendations for books for maths undergraduate students, which I’m sharing here.
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 39
DMFT is grateful for the last minute. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing maths and solving problems. Today I went to a school in Poole to talk about my career in maths and computing as part of Dorset Coding Week.…
What on earth is the infinite least squares beanstalk?
I’m trying something a bit different. Here’s a ten-minute video about a sequence I found on the OEIS.