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    Summer Maths Puzzles from the Isaac Newton Institute

    By Peter Rowlett. Posted August 22, 2019

    Summer Maths Puzzles website graphic

    There are a collection of 23 maths-based puzzles appearing at a rate of one-per-weekday through August over at the Isaac Newton Institute. Their website explains “They won’t require sophisticated maths to solve, but equally they won’t be easy. Discussing your ideas might help.”

    For example, here is the teaser puzzle, £8.19:

    Two players play a game.
    • They each start with an unlimited number of coins of denominations: 1p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p and 100p.
    • They take it in turns putting coins into a pot one at a time.
    • The winner is the person who places the final coin into the pot reaching the target total of £8.19.
    • A player automatically loses if they exceed the target total.
    Given that they are both perfect logicians and strategists, who wins?

    Answers will be revealed at the end of the month, and you are invited to submit your answers for a chance to be named as a person or group who submitted one of the first few correct answers.

    At the time of writing, there are 6 puzzles still to be revealed, and 17 puzzles are live. Check out the Summer Maths Puzzles website, or search Twitter, Facebook or Instagram for #SummerMathsPuzzles.

    Happy puzzling!

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    Tessellating Tricurves

    By Andrew Stacey. Posted August 22, 2019

    Tricurves were introduced to the Aperiodical audience via Tim Lexen‘s posts Bending the Law of Sines, Combining Tricurves, Phantom Tiling, and (joint with Katie Steckles) Making Tricurves. Like Tim and Katie in that last post, when introduced to a new concept I like to play around with it to see it from different perspectives. Tiling…

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    FryDay News Bulletin

    By Samuel Hansen. Posted August 16, 2019

    Regular readers of The Aperiodical will not be surprised to hear that Hannah Fry is up to something exciting, but you will likely still be surprised by the sheer number of exciting things which Hannah Fry is currently doing. But this is why we are here after all, so here is your breaking FryDay news,…

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    Carnival of Maths 172

    By Katie Steckles. Posted August 7, 2019

    Carnival of Maths 172

    The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of July, is now online at Cassandra Lee Yieng’s blog. 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.

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    The Big Internet Math-Off 2019: the end!

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted August 2, 2019

    It gives me huge pleasure to announce that the winner of the Big Internet Math-Off 2019, and consequently the World’s Most Interesting Mathematician (2019, of the 16 people I asked, who were available in July and agreed to take part), is: Sophie Carr! The final was incredibly closely fought, with the lead changing several times…

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    The Big Internet Math-Off: The final – Sameer Shah vs Sophie Carr

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted July 30, 2019

    Here we are! It’s finally the final! One month and 52 pieces of fun maths later, we’re just two more bits of maths away from finding the identity of The World’s Most Interesting Mathematician (2019, of the 16 people I asked to take part, who said yes and were free in July). It’s Sameer Shah…

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    The Big Internet Math-Off, The Big Internet Math-Off 2019

    The Big Internet Math-Off Semi-final 2: Sophie Carr vs Becky Warren

    By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted July 27, 2019

    This is the penultimate match before we find out who is the World’s Most Interesting Mathematician (2019 edition, of the 16 people who were asked to take part and were available in July). For the second semi-final, from group 3 it’s Sophie Carr up against the winner of group 4, Becky Warren. The pitches are…

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