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October 2026

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 70
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6F
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6E
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6D
  5. Carnival of Maths 255
  6. The last four digits of 16¹⁶

September 2026

  1. Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2026
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6C
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6B
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6A
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 69
  6. Carnival of Maths 254
  7. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: aboutlogic
  8. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 68

August 2026

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 67
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 66
  3. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Ellie Sleightholm
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 65
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 64
  6. Carnival of Maths 253
  7. Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2026

July 2026

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 63
  2. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: MathsWithKala
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 62
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 61
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 60
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5F
  7. Aperiodical News Roundup – June 2026

June 2026

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5E
  2. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: StanDoesMath
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5D
  4. Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2026
  5. Book review – The Beauty of Falling by Claudia de Rham
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5C
  7. Carnival of Maths 252
  8. Aperiodical News Roundup – April/May 2026
  9. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5B

May 2026

  1. Talking Maths in… Coventry Transport Museum
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5A
  3. Book review – A Guide to Infinity: Ten Mathematical Journeys by Edward R. Scheinerman
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 59
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 58
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 57
  7. Carnival of Maths 251

April 2026

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 56
  2. Review: Huge Numbers by Richard Elwes
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 55
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 54
  5. Carnival of Maths 250
  6. Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2026
  7. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 53
  8. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 52

March 2026

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 51
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 50
  3. 10 years of the “Is this prime?” game – time to analyse more results
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4F
  5. Carnival of Maths 249
  6. Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2026
  7. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4E

February 2026

  1. Prime time: now with annoying notifications!
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4D
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4C
  4. Mathematical Objects: A Norbert Wiener Story
  5. Carnival of Maths 248
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4B
  7. Number Builder: can you build up from 1 to the target?
  8. Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2026
  9. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4A

January 2026

  1. Mathematical Objects: Certified Mathematical Object sticker with Chris Nho
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 49
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 48
  4. Mathematical Objects: A taxicab
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 47
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 46
  7. Aperiodical News Roundup – December 2025
  8. Carnival of Maths 247
  9. Mathematical Objects: Venn diagram with Keisha Thompson

December 2025

  1. Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2026
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 45
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 44
  4. Mathematical Objects: Slice of pizza
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 43
  6. Interview: Jigsy puzzle app
  7. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 42
  8. 200 3D printed shapes, 480 children, and a lot of paint 😬
  9. Mathematical Objects: Cardioid with Dominika Vasilkova
  10. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 41
  11. Carnival of Maths 246
  12. Aperiodical News Roundup – October & November 2025

November 2025

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 40
  2. Beach Spectres update – I’ve made a big tile!
  3. Mathematical Objects: Roman dodecahedron
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3F
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3E
  6. Mathematical Objects: 3D wooden puzzle with Grant Sanderson
  7. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3D
  8. Carnival of Maths 245

October 2025

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3C
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3B
  3. Let’s go to the beach and make an aperiodic tiling!
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3A
  5. Books to Recommend to Maths Students
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 39
  7. What on earth is the infinite least squares beanstalk?
  8. Carnival of Maths 244
  9. Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2025
  10. Breaking enneahedron news!
  11. #mathober 2025
  12. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 38

September 2025

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 37
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 36
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 35
  4. Review: The Pseudorandom Ensemble at TMiP25
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 34
  6. Carnival of Maths 242

August 2025

  1. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 33
  2. Review: The Mathematician’s Library, by Thomas K. Briggs
  3. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 32
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 31
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 30
  6. Carnival of Maths #241
  7. Aperiodical News Roundup – June & July 2025

July 2025

  1. Maths at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2025
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2F
  3. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Another Roof
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2E
  5. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2D
  6. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Henry Segerman
  7. The Magic Theorem
  8. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2C
  9. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2B

June 2025

  1. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Welch Labs
  2. When the moon hits your eye with a big piece of \( \pi \)…
  3. The Herschel enneahedron on Numberphile
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2A
  5. The mathematical essence of origami blue-and-white porcelain
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 29
  7. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Boppana Math
  8. Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2025
  9. Carnival of Maths 240
  10. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 28
  11. Podcasting About: Stats + Stories
  12. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 27
  13. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Jim Simons

May 2025

  1. Aperiodical News Roundup – April & May 2025
  2. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 26
  3. Topics I taught this year
  4. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 25
  5. \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Nils Berglund
  6. Double Maths First Thing: Issue 24

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