Double Maths First Thing is at about 3.5/5 on the ready-to-rock-o-meter HELLO $CURRENT_LOCATION! Sorry, hang on, the show isn’t until tonight. Let me switch off rock god mode and try again. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing maths for its…
Review: The Mathematician’s Library, by Thomas K. Briggs
Books. Every self-respecting mathematician’s floor has a pile of them, some half-read, others to re-read, some merely providing structural support. In The Mathematician’s Library, Thomas K. Briggs considers an alternative approach to the literature, instead using the books of the last few millennia to tell the story of mathematical development around the world. When I…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 32
Double Maths First Thing is looking forward to the cricket Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing maths, solving puzzles, and feeling really clever about it. This week, we’re planning to take a trip to Worcester to watch a cricket match.…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 31
Double Maths First Thing feels like this rubber band is getting longer. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in maths. This week I’m mainly on childcare duty and watching the calendar until I can pick up a new weather project in September. As…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 30
Double Maths First Thing keeps getting bumped to the next room Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread delight and joy in mathematical thinking and practice. This week, the kids are at a sailing course. I’ve never quite understood how it’s possible to sail into the wind,…
Carnival of Maths #241
Welcome to the 241st Carnival of Mathematics, hosted here at the home of the Carnival, The Aperiodical. The Aperiodical is a shared blog written and curated by Katie Steckles (me), Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett, where we share interesting maths news and content, aimed at people who already know they like maths and would like…
Aperiodical News Roundup – June & July 2025
Here’s a round-up of mathematical news stories that happened in the last couple of months, that we didn’t otherwise cover on the site. Mathematical Discoveries A newly discovered shape (ArXiV paper), described as a monostable tetrahedron, always lands the same way up – whatever orientation you place it in, gravity pulls it to the same…