Here’s a round-up of maths news stories from this month we haven’t otherwise covered on the Aperiodical (not including, of course, the important enneahedron news Christian just posted about).
Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2025
Breaking enneahedron news!
A nice person called Payton Asch sent me an email with an observation about the Herschel enneahedron: It looks like the underlying polytope for the enneahedron is a triangular bipyramid (two tetrahedra stacked on top of each other) or the dual polytope would be a triangular prism. In the case of the triangular bipyramid you…
#mathober 2025
We’ve gone crashing into October and that means it’s also #Mathober, an annual maths/art celebration taking place on the internet. If you’re into maths or art, or both, and would like to try producing something creative this month, on an informal schedule, #mathober provides a structure for you to do that.
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 38
DMFT wants to be in the room where it happens Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and happiness in doing maths, solving puzzles and generally figuring stuff out. We went to see Hamilton (the musical, not Academical) in the cinema at the weekend – I…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 37
Double Maths First Thing didn’t know the letters went that big. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share the joy and delight I take in figuring stuff out and solving puzzles. This weekend just gone, I went to the not-yet-open MathsWorld venue in Southwark to hang out…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 36
There is a good service on all DMFT lines Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to share the joy, love and creativity of doing exactly the right maths for you. This week, I have mainly been cursing the name of Scroggs and his cursed Chalkdust crossnumber. (It’s traditional,…
Double Maths First Thing: Issue 35
DMFT turns around, and every now and then it falls apart Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread joy and delight in mathematics. I’m tutoring a bit of Further Core Pure 1 this year, and it was quite instructive to do a paper and find that I’m…