Double Maths First Thing dislikes fireworks
Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in mathematical thinking and practice.
This week I am mainly rehearsing my Big MathsJam talk and seeing what I can trim out to get it down to five minutes. In likelihood, I’ll do that and find that it takes three in the end. I’m talking about row 0 of Pascal’s triangle and what its graph looks like.
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Big news from the OEIS: they’ve decided what should be A400000. It’s a nice sequence. I’m a bit disheartened that the list of winners and honourable mentions comprises (to the best of my judgement) only men. In reading around, it, I stumbled on this lovely fractal on Rémy Sigrist’s page and thought it was worth animating.
A delightfully old-school virtual museum of calculators. In other “mathematically interesting collections” but in the real world, Mair has gone Boole-hunting in Lincoln.
I’m a fan of crosswords, and especially anagrams. This absurd descent into optimisation was right up my street.
Mathober is over. Katie Steckles spent it making zines. Fractal Kitty made beautiful art with fungi, lichen and slime moulds(?!). Did you do something interesting? Let me know!
From the worlds where algorithms rule, a nice bit of topology via Miles and some parenting almost as excellent as toddler maths skills.
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Here’s this month’s TMiP animation collaboration, which appears to be Ben Sparks explaining his process and me dropping in a 15-second clip. Next month’s challenge looks fun.
Sam Hartburn has put together Carnival of Mathematics 256 for our reading pleasure. The next host is Stormy and you can send in links in the usual place.
You probably want to be an element of the Finite Group if you aren’t already.
If you’re an aspiring STEM writer, you should probably apply to ScienceWrite before the deadline on November 9th.
Rob Eastaway is giving a “more Shakespeare-oriented” version of his Much Ado About Numbers talk at the Covent Garden Actors’ Club on Thursday November 19th at 7pm. Book tickets here.
That’s all I’ve got for this week. If you have friends and/or colleagues who would enjoy Double Maths First Thing, do send them the link to sign up – they’ll be very welcome here.
If you’ve missed the previous issues of DMFT or – somehow – this one, you can find the archive courtesy of my dear friends at the Aperiodical.
Meanwhile, if there’s something I should know about, you can find me on Mathstodon as @icecolbeveridge, or at my personal website. You can also just reply to this email if there’s something you want to tell me.
Until next time,
C