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The Aperiodical @aperiodical

Maths magazine/blog for people interested in mathematics. News, Videos, Features, Columns. Editors: @christianp, @peterrowlett, @stecks.

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The Aperiodical@aperiodical
28 Sep 2023
The Aperiodical posts irregular maths news, interesting articles & updates. We won’t be posting regularly here going forward, so find us on the regular internet! • a feed of our content at aperiodical.com • on mathstodon.xyz/@aperiodical • by RSS: aperiodical.com/feed/
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Remembering the year we went all in on Pi Day - here’s a post rounding up contributions from The Aperiodical team and various pals including @standupmaths, Alex Bellos and Simon Singh aperiodical.com/2015/03/pi-d… #PiDay #PiDay2024

Pi Day 2015: The Aperiodical goes π mad

You may have noticed that here at The Aperiodical, we’ve been posting exciting π-related items all week – and here’s a list of them all, collected into one handy place. Enjoy!

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Announcing The Finite Group - @stecks, @sophiemacmaths, @mscroggs and @peterrowlett's new initiative aperiodical.com/2023/09/anno…

Announcing The Finite Group

“Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a place where maths people could hang out and create cool maths things?” This idea was put to me a couple of years ago, and has stuck with me. It does sound nice. …

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I inherited from my grandad an interesting old maths book. Here @stecks & I take a look and investigate what it is and where it came from. Last episode of @MathsObjects Podcast for this season. Mathematics in Theory and Practice, edited by Warwick Sawyer aperiodical.com/2023/09/math…

Mathematical Objects: Mathematics in Theory and Practice, edited by Warwick Sawyer

A conversation about mathematics inspired by an old textbook, Mathematics in Theory and Practice, edited by Warwick Sawyer. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

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New podcast episode: Mathematical Objects: Scone - @stecks & I discuss scones (and the Ham Sandwich Theorem) with special guest @sophiemacmaths. aperiodical.com/2023/08/math…

Mathematical Objects: Scone with Sophie Maclean

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a scone. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Sophie Maclean. Photo CC BY-SA 2.0 by Alpha

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The first of a series in which @peterrowlett reproduces Martin Gardner's Scientific American cover images in TikZ aperiodical.com/2023/08/1-pa…

1. Patterns

Martin Gardner’s long-running column in Scientific American made it onto the front cover of the magazine twelve times. Gathering 4 Gardner refers to these cover stories as “A Gardner…

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A visit to The Mathematikum in Giessen aperiodical.com/2023/08/a-vi…

A visit to The Mathematikum in Giessen

My son and I visited The Mathematikum in Giessen. This is well worth a visit, we did it as a day trip by train from holiday in Frankfurt, which worked well because the museum is close to the railwa…

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Bouton numbers: a new integer sequence aperiodical.com/2023/08/bout…

Bouton numbers: a new integer sequence

In the 1901 paper that named the game Nim and provided its mathematical analysis, Charles Bouton defined “safe combinations”, positions that if you leave the game in this state, your opponent canno…

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New podcast episode! @MathsObjects: Joukowsky aerofoil aperiodical.com/2023/08/math…

Mathematical Objects: Joukowsky aerofoil

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the Joukowsky aerofoil. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

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Review: Andrew Pontzen's The Universe in a Box (guest post by Elliott Baxby) aperiodical.com/2023/08/revi…

Review: Andrew Pontzen’s The Universe in a Box

We asked guest author Elliott Baxby to take a look at Andrew Pontzen’s latest book, The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History. Ever since I became interested in mathematics, I have always wanted …

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Daily LEGO maths prompts every day in August aperiodical.com/2023/08/dail…

Daily LEGO maths prompts every day in August

Mathematician and ninja mathematical-thinking-prompter Alison Kiddle has been posting an image each day for the whole of August, each prompting some kind of mathematical question or discussion.

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Carnival of Mathematics 218 aperiodical.com/2023/08/carn…

Carnival of Mathematics 218

The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of July 2023, is now online at Tony’s Maths Blog. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over th…

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New podcast episode! @MathsObjects: Guitar with Sam Hartburn aperiodical.com/2023/07/math…

Mathematical Objects: Guitar with Sam Hartburn

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a guitar. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Sam Hartburn.

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27 tickets that guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery – but what prize? aperiodical.com/2023/07/27-t…

27 tickets that guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery – but what prize?

The recent preprint ‘You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery’ by David Cushing and David I. Stewart presents a list of 27 lottery tickets which will guarantee …

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Interview: @KyleDEvans on his 2023 Fringe show, Maths at the Museum aperiodical.com/2023/07/inte…

Interview: Kyle Evans on his 2023 Fringe show, Maths at the Museum

We spoke to friend of the site, award-winning maths communicator and past math-off competitor Kyle Evans about his Edinburgh Fringe show for 2023, which is about maths.

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Carnival of Mathematics 217 aperiodical.com/2023/07/carn…

Carnival of Mathematics 217

The next issue of the Carnival of Mathematics, rounding up blog posts from the month of June 2023, is now online at Double Root. The Carnival rounds up maths blog posts from all over the internet, …

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New podcast episode! On-Sets, a 1960s game designed to teach set theory. aperiodical.com/2023/07/math… Yesterday @peterrowlett's #openaccess article about this game in Math Horizons hit 10,000 downloads! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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ALT Cards with coloured dots and dice with coloured dots and mathematical symbols

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New post: Aperiodical News Roundup – May & June 2023 - featuring monotiles, prizes, Rubik's cubes and new algorithms! aperiodical.com/2023/06/aper…

Aperiodical News Roundup – May & June 2023

Maths news didn’t stop coming this month, and if you missed it, here was our coverage of the new Spectre aperiodic monotile, an improvement on the previous monotile discovery. Here’s so…

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New podcast episode! Mathematical Objects: A book with @sarahlovesmaths aperiodical.com/2023/06/math…

Mathematical Objects: A book with Sarah Hart

A conversation about mathematics and literature inspired by a book. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett with special guest Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connection…

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The UK Government have announced the first set of King’s Birthday Honours for King Charles III. Here’s our selection of particularly mathematical entries for this year: aperiodical.com/2023/06/part… Let us know if we've missed any!

Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2023

The UK Government have announced the first set of King’s Birthday Honours for King Charles III. Here’s our selection of particularly mathematical entries for this year. If you spot any more, …

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