Double Maths First Thing is fair drawing in.
Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in doing and talking (and singing) about maths.
This week I’m in the undelightful state of “writing up maths I’ve already done”, which is preventing me from doing new maths. I don’t like it.
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Fractal Kitty is responsible for the Mathober prompts.
Maths Week England is barely six weeks away, and starts on my birthday. This year, they’re running a prize competition for maths in libraries (which there should be more of).
My favourite paper of the week: An Abundance Of Katherines: The Game Theory of Baby Naming, by Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, and Katie Van Koevering.
Katie Steckles is not an author, but she has pointed me at a daily game called Trace, which I refuse to engage with on “already having too many daily games” grounds. Ben Cornish points me a Wikipedia exploration game which I also have too little time for.
While DMFT’s official position is “in this household, we don’t care about AI”, we’ve got a paper by Chaim Goodman-Strauss explaining the maths of a recently-discovered three-dimensional monotile, Chair44. @Danpiker has animated the tessellation. I’ve not tried to follow it, because of the aforementioned position. Sometimes it makes things much easier if you decide not to care.
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If you’ve got Carnival links for Ben Leis, the deadline is fast approaching. Send ’em in here. Next month’s host is Sam Hartburn…
… Who (among many other things, such as being a fabulous human) runs the TMiP animation collaboration, the September edition of which is drawing to a close – if you’ve got an animation about PROOFS WITHOUT WORDS, you’ve only got a few days. October’s prompt is FRACTALS.
Next week: Dr Volker Remmert is speaking about “What do you need a mathematician for? as the BSHM Gresham Lecture in central London from 5:30pm on October 7th.
Richard Elwes is talking big numbers at the Wells Literary Festival on Sunday October 18th at 4:15pm. Tickets are £12.50.
If you’re an aspiring STEM writer, you should probably apply to ScienceWrite before the deadline on November 9th.
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