Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett chat about some aspect of mathematics using a mathematical object as inspiration.
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All episodes are available under the ‘Mathematical Objects’ category. They are listed here for convenience.
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Season 1
- Towers of Hanoi
- Pythagoras T-shirt
- Stick of Chalk
- Tantrix Tiles, Beaded Necklaces and Juggling Balls (with Alex Corner)
- Pile of matchsticks
- Tangerine
- Noughts and Crosses (Tic Tac Toe) board
- Thermometer
Season 2
- A pair of skipping ropes
- Pseudorhombicuboctahedron
- Correntator (with Christian Lawson-Perfect)
- Ox Blocks
- A deck of Set cards
- Romanesco Broccoli
- Pencil
- Robot caterpillar
Season 3
- D&D Dice
- Rubik’s Cube
- Number block cubes
- Acoustic mirrors (with James Grime)
- Mandala (with Hana Ayoob)
- Möbius band
- A vehicle (with Christopher Danielson)
- Twenty Pence coin
Season 4
- Hundred square (with Susan Okereke)
- A hat
- Klein bottle (with Matthew Scroggs)
- Lottery machine
- Ball of wool (with Pat Ashforth)
- Solids of constant width
- Enigma machine (with Tom Briggs)
- Christmas crackers
Season 5
- Arbelos (with Catriona Agg)
- Dobble
- Auctioneer’s Hammer (with Tim Harford)
- UUID 0412a969-5b27-4c28-9662-85ef2c201e0c
- Balancing bird (with Alom Shaha)
- Spirograph
- Plate of biscuits (with Alison Kiddle)
- A sheep, at least one side of which is black
Season 6
- Superegg (with Hannah Fry)
- Hairy ball
- A joke (with Bec Hill)
- PageRank
- Nodal cubic (with Angela Tabiri)
- Slinky
- Quarto
- Fingers (with Ben Orlin)
Season 7
- Aperiodic monotile (with Chaim Goodman-Strauss)
- Battenberg cake
- A book (with Sarah Hart)
- On-Sets
- Guitar (with Sam Hartburn)
- Joukowsky aerofoil
- Scone (with Sophie Maclean)
- Mathematics in Theory and Practice, edited by Warwick Sawyer
Season 8
- Low bridge sign (with Adam Townsend)
- Space-filling curves