Double Maths First Thing is the Ultimate Answer. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to the moon! But I’m also on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing maths anywhere in the cosmos. Talking of doing maths in strange and hostile environments, I’m going to Bristol this weekend…
The mathematical essence of origami blue-and-white porcelain
A story In my childhood memories, the lanterns in my hometown always fascinated me – circular palace lanterns, polyhedral colorful lanterns. How did my ancestors achieve the magical transformation from flat to three-dimensional through simple bamboo strips and paper? As a child, I was often confused: was there anything hidden behind these beautiful shapes? Three…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 29
Double Maths First Thing is excited about the moon! Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in doing and thinking about maths. Annoyingly, immediately after last week’s issue went out, several interesting things popped onto my radar. One of them was Katie and Peter asking why nobody…
\(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Boppana Math
In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical video and streaming channels from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the channel and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Ravi Boppana about his channel, Boppana Math.
Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2025
The UK Government have announced the new set of King’s Birthday Honours. Here’s our selection of particularly mathematical entries for this year. If you spot any more, let us know in the comments and we’ll add to the list. Get the full list from gov.uk. Spot anyone we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments.
Carnival of Maths 240
The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of May 2025, is now online at Beauty of Mathematics. 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.
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 28
Double Maths First Thing is bringing the thunder Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in playing with patterns, puzzles, figures and logic. First up, an apology: in last week’s issue, I mistyped the number of solvable nonograms: rather than 25,000, there are 25,000,000. As…