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December 2013

  1. Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2014
  2. Toast Formula Update!
  3. Newcastle MathsJam second half of 2013 recap
  4. Alan Turing receives Royal Pardon
  5. Maths and Magic on BBC Radio 4
  6. Turismo Matemático is five years old
  7. Persi Diaconis lecture: “The Magic of Martin Gardner”
  8. There’s going to be a film about Ramanujan
  9. NT matters (Wrapping up algebraic numbers)
  10. Nominations for LMS 2014 prizes open
  11. Puzzlebomb – December 2013
  12. Infinite Monkey Maths
  13. Carnival of Mathematics 105
  14. Menger zoom by functor.co
  15. The minch, the mound and the light-gigaminch
  16. Daydream by Nonotak Studio
  17. Dynamic generation of maths questions
  18. Mathematica free on the Raspberry Pi

November 2013

  1. Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 8
  2. Cushing and CP’s Random Talks, number 1
  3. What do these three pictures have in common?
  4. A History of Britain in Numbers
  5. Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef book
  6. OEIS Foundation Appeal
  7. Education Round Up
  8. Probability of dealing four perfect hands of cards in a world of random shufflers
  9. MathEd.net wiki
  10. Aperiodcast – MathsJam 2013!
  11. Carnival of Mathematics 104
  12. Why maths isn’t like science (and may be evil)
  13. The Chris Tarrant Problem
  14. From the Mailbag: Dual Inversal Numbers
  15. Review: X&Y
  16. Ada Lovelace Day Book out now
  17. Recent history
  18. Dark days for MathML support in browsers
  19. Puzzlebomb – November 2013

October 2013

  1. The arXiv has enabled MathJax!
  2. All Squared, Number 10: Maths journalism
  3. Prime gaps update
  4. iSquared Magazine available for free download
  5. GeoGebra Conference Budapest 2014
  6. BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS by Parachutes
  7. Emergency Maths Arcade (Or, suggestions of pen and paper mathematical games)
  8. The Magic Cube – a 3D logic puzzle
  9. Nirvana by Numbers
  10. Council orders maths & Sudoku to be removed from mathematician’s gravestone
  11. Eugenia Cheng is at it again
  12. Carnival of Mathematics 103
  13. BBC News webchat with Simon Singh
  14. My teaching in 2013/14
  15. Jos’ Perfect Cuboid
  16. All Squared, Number 9: Miscellanea with CP and Cushing
  17. Integer sequence review: A006720
  18. Bart The Genius
  19. Not Mentioned on the Aperiodical this month, 6th October
  20. All Squared, Number 8: Martin Gardner (Colm Mulcahy part 2)
  21. More Or Less integer sequence solution revealed (spoilers!)
  22. Puzzlebomb – October 2013
  23. Integer sequence puzzle in More or Less
  24. An enneahedron for Herschel

September 2013

  1. MathsJam Conference 2013: early-bird discount has ended
  2. All Squared, Number 7: Card Magic (Colm Mulcahy part 1)
  3. Rubik’s Cube in Minecraft
  4. Visual Insight by John Baez
  5. Translate Numberphile, please / Traduisez Numberphile, s’il-vous-plaît / Bitte übersetzen Numberphile…
  6. Deligne Day: October 5, 2013
  7. ‘Low barrier, high ceiling’ and the Maths Arcade
  8. Maths Careers Poster Competition 2013/14
  9. Computational mathematics in the cloud with Sagemath
  10. Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle – 24th Sept
  11. Yoshimoto Friends
  12. Hyperbolic Hyperbolic Hyperbolic: Daina Taimina at the DUMBO Arts Festival 2013
  13. Ian Stewart on The Life Scientific
  14. Carnival of Mathematics 102
  15. Euclid’s Kiss: Geometric Sculpture of George Hart
  16. GeoGebra now available for tablets
  17. The Kadison-Singer Conjecture explained
  18. Toast formula
  19. We’ll be back after these messages
  20. Ten years of part-time working
  21. Review: Wuzzit Trouble
  22. Puzzlebomb – September 2013
  23. Math Munch is something to chew on
  24. Time tilings by Pablo Valbuena

August 2013

  1. Vuoristo by Fabien Barrero+Carsenat
  2. Open Season: Prime Numbers (part 2)
  3. Statistics events at Conservative and Labour party conferences this autumn
  4. Your suggestions of iPad apps for university mathematics teaching
  5. Solids of Constant Width now available from Maths Gear
  6. Open Season: Prime Numbers (Part 1)
  7. muoto by Traction and Brainstorm
  8. Not Mentioned on the Aperiodical this month, 21 August
  9. iPad apps for university mathematics teaching: your suggestions please
  10. Manchester MathsJam recap, August 2013
  11. Julia Robinson and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem, by George Csicsery
  12. Explaining things
  13. Carnival of Mathematics #101: Prime Numbered Special Edition
  14. Manchester MathsJam recap, July 2013
  15. Aperiodical Round Up 9: Frank Nelson Cole is the best at math
  16. Puzzlebomb – August 2013

July 2013

  1. Integer Sequence Review Mêlée Hyper-Battle DX 2000, THE GRAND FINALE
  2. Maths at the Fringe
  3. Enormous Sierpiński tetrahedron made of balloons
  4. 26th July 2004–23rd July 2013
  5. Breaking: Peter Rowlett has submitted his doctoral thesis
  6. Integer sequence reviews on Numberphile (or vice versa)
  7. Integer Sequence Review Mêlée Hyper-Battle DX 2000 (Bracket 4)
  8. How to Win at Pointless
  9. Not mentioned recently on The Aperiodical
  10. #TweetMyThesis
  11. Integer Sequence Review Mêlée Hyper-Battle DX 2000 (Bracket 3)
  12. Puzzlebomb – July 2013
  13. Carnival of Mathematics 100
  14. MathsJam Conference Website: Nice
  15. Integer Sequence Review Mêlée Hyper-Battle DX 2000 (Bracket 2)

June 2013

  1. Ghost Diagrams
  2. Another open source textbook
  3. A bit of midweek fun: ANCIENT GREEK GEOMETRY
  4. Math Overflow 2.0
  5. Integer Sequence Review Mêlée Hyper-Battle DX 2000 (Bracket 1)
  6. Homotopy Type Theory: a new foundation for 21st-century mathematics
  7. Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2013
  8. Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 7
  9. Cushing your luck: properties of randomly chosen numbers
  10. Scrooge McDuck in Mathmagic land
  11. Bound on prime gaps bound decreasing by leaps and bounds
  12. What colour shirt do mathematicians wear?
  13. Integer Sequence Review: A052486
  14. Carnival of Mathematics 99
  15. Maths at the Cheltenham Science Festival
  16. Four silly stories
  17. Puzzlebomb – June 2013

May 2013

  1. A new model theory blog: Forking, Forcing and back&Forthing
  2. Mathagogy: two-minute mathematics education
  3. Girih patterns by Joe Bartholomew
  4. “Bounded gaps between primes” by Yitang Zhang now available
  5. Cream(t)
  6. Elsevier one year on: “essentially nothing has changed”
  7. Integer sequence review: A000959
  8. Geometric Unity: phenomenal advance, or crazy theory?
  9. First papers in Forum of Mathematics Pi and Sigma
  10. Call for nominations for ICIAM Prizes for 2015
  11. EDF0 by Raven Kwok
  12. Integer sequence review: A005114
  13. Axes to Axes
  14. MathsJam Conference 2013 – registration now open
  15. All Squared, Number 6: Favourite maths books (part 2)
  16. On equivalent forms of the weak Goldbach conjecture
  17. 2² number theory tricks
  18. Dynamo by Felice Varini
  19. All odd integers greater than 7 are the sum of three odd primes!
  20. Primes really do stick together
  21. Integer sequence review: A051200
  22. Primes gotta stick together
  23. OSCILLATE by Daniel Sierra
  24. All Squared, Number 5: Favourite maths books (part 1)
  25. Random walks on slides
  26. abc: the story so far
  27. Carnival of Mathematics 98
  28. Integer sequence review: A010727
  29. Ox Blocks probabilities
  30. Monthly MathsJams – November 2012 Survey Data
  31. Newcastle MathsJam March and April 2013 Recap
  32. Integer sequence review: A225143
  33. The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III)
  34. Here’s How Little I See Your Point
  35. Seeking election-themed graph blunders
  36. Maths-Art seminars at London Knowledge Lab
  37. Puzzlebomb – May 2013
  38. The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part II)

April 2013

  1. Matt Parker: Number Ninja
  2. Art for a maths department
  3. IMA seeks mathematical images for anniversary book
  4. The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I)
  5. Hemisphere by Bálint Bolygó
  6. Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums Series 2 starts Wednesday 1st May
  7. The Aperiodical is one!
  8. Manchester MathsJam writeup, April 2013
  9. Puzzlebomb Presents: Special 1
  10. Rhombus System by The Fundamental Group
  11. Happy Birthday Euler!
  12. Results of Gowers’ mathematical writing experiment
  13. Not mentioned on The Aperiodical this month, March/April
  14. LMS Popular Lectures 2013: ‘Mathematics in the Courtroom’ and ‘Addictive Number Theory
  15. Travelling Salesman Movie London screening
  16. Erdős Centennial conference
  17. The Number Project, by Brandon Wilson
  18. A new place to hang my hat
  19. All Squared, Number 4: How interesting!
  20. Carnival of Mathematics 97
  21. ‘Maths whizz’ ‘predicts’ Grand National ‘winner’
  22. George E. P. Box (1919-2013)
  23. Puzzlebomb – April 2013
  24. Pale imitations: newcomers in the Math/Maths Podcast hiatus
  25. Long-standing ‘Continuum Hypothesis’ disproved
  26. I resign
  27. Largest prime discovered
  28. A simple proof that π is rational
  29. A simple proof that π is rational

March 2013

  1. BAMC 2013 public lecture: Applying Mathematics to Our Sun, by Eric Priest
  2. Games to entertain a commutative mathematician.
  3. Follow Friday, 29/03/13
  4. MOVES: A recreational mathematics conference at MoMath
  5. Turing: THE MUSICAL!
  6. Porl Air-dursh: a public service announcement
  7. f(Erdős) = 100
  8. Gowers needs you for an experiment concerning mathematical writing
  9. Mary Ellen Rudin (1924-2013)
  10. The Royal Statistical Society 2013 honours
  11. Manchester MathsJam recap, March 2013
  12. The Abel Prize Laureate 2013: Pierre Deligne
  13. ABC, as easy as pp1-40
  14. Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 6
  15. That Makes It Invertible! (by The Three Directions)
  16. All Squared, Number 3: As Easy As…
  17. Karma by Do Ho Suh
  18. Matheliebe exhibition in Liechtenstein
  19. Much ado About Noether
  20. All Squared, Number 2 – Pancake formula
  21. Newcastle MathsJam January & February 2013 recaps
  22. Open Season – The Perfect Cuboid
  23. MathsWorldUK: plans for a UK maths museum
  24. LMS Report: ‘Advancing women in mathematics: good practice in UK university departments’
  25. Carnival of Mathematics 96
  26. Möbius: the film
  27. Puzzlebomb – March 2013

February 2013

  1. Reading aloud and enlarging mathematics
  2. All Squared, Number 1: Maths out loud
  3. Making sense of all the recent reports on the state of mathematics education
  4. English/Asian mathematics education comparison: what the IoE report actually says
  5. LMS 150 Year Impact Assessment
  6. Competition to visualise open government data
  7. Not mentioned on The Aperiodical last week – Un-un-free research, MOOCs and cash for arty maths
  8. Applied game theory: Students boycott exam and all get an A
  9. Like in a Dream, by Jérémie Brunet
  10. The New Mathblogging.org
  11. Pi day live, starring Marcus du Sautoy
  12. Big Data Week
  13. Principia Mathematica – THE MUSICAL
  14. Foldable Dodecahedron Calendar made in LaTeX
  15. Crimewaves really are waves – but they can be stopped
  16. Formula for BMI has an ‘ill-founded definition’
  17. Aperiodcast – 11/02/2013
  18. Collaborative Mathematics: kids (and non-kids) work together on problems over YouTube
  19. Your help needed: survey of international mathematical cultures
  20. Talk: Computability of Bass-Serre structures in the Grzegorczyk hierarchy
  21. ‘Of little practical value’?
  22. GCSE switch-off is off
  23. Chrome no longer supports MathML
  24. More experimental evidence for the infinitude of the primes
  25. The invariant subspace problem is still a problem
  26. Carnival of Mathematics 95
  27. International Year of Statistics Video Contest
  28. Rock Paper Squiggles
  29. BSA STEM Poster Competition – Mission to Mars
  30. Éditions Hermann donates its Bourbaki archives to the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  31. Puzzlebomb – February 2013
  32. Winners announced: Maths Careers Maths of Planet Earth 2013 Poster Competition
  33. News in brie(f)
  34. LMS Women in Mathematics Day

January 2013

  1. "Developing a Healthy Scepticism About Technology in Mathematics Teaching"
  2. MathsJam expands yet again
  3. Open Season – Singmaster’s Conjecture
  4. Join the Aperiodical News Team
  5. Geometric animated GIFs by Paolo Čerić
  6. Log-log! Who’s there? Not a power law!
  7. The invariant subspace problem is solved for Hilbert spaces?
  8. Submergence01 by Squidsoup
  9. Student placement with the Numerical Algorithms Group
  10. Chrome now supports MathML
  11. This is an ex-parrot. ‘Is plumage has dimension 1
  12. Art by Owen Schuh
  13. Manchester MathsJam January 2013 Recap
  14. Save the Ri
  15. Advantages of assessment – please discuss
  16. The Good, the Bad and Gowers
  17. Registration opens for second run of Keith Devlin’s MOOC
  18. The perfect formula for mathsiness
  19. Aperiodcast – Christiansmas Eve 2013
  20. The nonsense math effect
  21. Math/Maths 127: Hiatus Begins
  22. The Aperiodical’s Possibly Annual Awards for Mathematical Achievement
  23. 2013: I can be the year of stuff too!
  24. Carnival of Mathematics 94
  25. Möbius house
  26. Dancing shapes by Carlo Vega
  27. AS maths results and batting averages
  28. Not mentioned on The Aperiodical last year
  29. Aperiodical Round Up 8: if a bird heard the word ‘surd’
  30. Puzzlebomb – January 2013

2012 602

December 2012

  1. Math/Maths 126: Review of the year – 1712
  2. Let’s ture to the max!
  3. Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2013
  4. Math/Maths 125: Kevin Devlin’s Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC
  5. Mathematical Christmas Cracker Jokes
  6. Can you do long division? And other questions we’d like answers to.
  7. Gregorian Calendarists predict coming apocalypse
  8. Amazing Sierpinski Tetrahedron
  9. Fractal Christmas Trees – Your Photos
  10. Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror
  11. Keith Devlin’s 5-week survey of maths course is on YouTube
  12. Not mentioned on The Aperiodical this week
  13. Math/Maths 124: Potato The Mathematicial Genius
  14. MoMath is open!
  15. Deck the halls with τ of holly, formula-la-laaa!
  16. Interview: Alan Turing Cryptography competition
  17. Matt Parker’s Fractal Christmas Tree
  18. Podcasting update
  19. Math/Maths 123: Ups and Downs
  20. Help a dude write an open-source calculus textbook (or use one of the many great ones already available)
  21. Videos from MathsJam 2012
  22. Conjoined Möbius Hat pattern by Woolly Thoughts
  23. 3D-printed mathematical objects roundup
  24. Registration for the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition 2013 is open
  25. A mathematical monologue
  26. Peter Rowlett interviewed on mathblogging.org
  27. Carnival of Mathematics 93
  28. Recreational Maths Seminar – Seven Staggering Sequences
  29. New York Museum of Mathematics opening weekend tickets now on sale
  30. Puzzlebomb – December 2012
  31. Math/Maths 122: Subliminal Mathematics
  32. Radii of polyhedra

November 2012

  1. Watch Tim Harford recording a new radio show about economics for the BBC
  2. Newcastle MathsJam November 2012 Recap
  3. STYN by Sam van Doorn
  4. Recreational Maths Seminar this Sunday at 7pm GMT
  5. GCHQ recruits maths, physics and computing experts to analyse social networks
  6. The Joy of $x$, by Steven Strogatz
  7. World Record Rubik’s Cube Solve
  8. Towards a working definition of the terrifying numbers
  9. Tying knots in light
  10. Undergraduate conference: Tomorrow’s Mathematicians Today 2013
  11. Declassifying Discoveries by NSA Mathematicians
  12. The ACMEScience.com Kickstarter
  13. Aperiodcast – MathsJam 2012!
  14. What I did on my holidays, by Colin (aged 35 and a bit)
  15. Math/Maths 121: Live from Maths Jam Conference 2012
  16. We’re all off to MathsJam!
  17. Follow Friday, 16/11/12
  18. Executive Summaries from Less than Successful Research Proposals
  19. Recreational Maths Seminar – Picture-hanging puzzles
  20. Relatively Prime is done
  21. Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums to return; maths students sought to take part
  22. Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle – 12th Nov
  23. Not mentioned on The Aperiodical last week
  24. Considering PhD research in mathematics in 2013? LMS Prospects in Mathematics meeting
  25. Education reform in England: new initiatives and changes announced
  26. Call for nominations for 2013 LMS Prizes
  27. Math/Maths 120: Math Wins US Election
  28. AMS Mass Media Fellowships
  29. The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012
  30. Follow Friday, 9/11/12
  31. Christian Perfect interviewed on mathblogging.org
  32. MAA Mathematical Pumpkins
  33. Starburst by Tim Locke
  34. Puzzlebomb – November 2012
  35. Math/Maths 119: Those Boffins, and their Science
  36. Recreational Maths Seminar next Sunday at 7pm GMT
  37. Maths Careers Poster Competition 2012/2013
  38. Newcastle MathsJam October 2012 Recap
  39. Walking on π in the NSF Visualization Challenge
  40. Follow Friday, 2/11/12
  41. Carnival of Mathematics 92
  42. A recreational maths seminar?

October 2012

  1. Factor Conga
  2. Interesting Esoterica Spooky Halloween Edition
  3. Land of the Rising Sums by Alex Bellos on Radio 4
  4. Martin Gardner celebration week in Nottingham
  5. Math/Maths 118: An 11.5 microhertz Domputer
  6. National Numeracy Challenge for working adults
  7. Travelling Salesman Movie UK screening in Cambridge
  8. The petition to put Alan Turing on the £10 note has received a response
  9. Maths Week Ireland 2012
  10. High Trestle Trail Bridge by RDG
  11. Happy birthday, Évariste Galois
  12. The Aperiodical is half!
  13. Apples by Şakir Gökçebağ
  14. L’Aquila seismologists found guilty of manslaughter connected to earthquake risk assessment
  15. Aperiodcast – 21/10/2012
  16. Math/Maths 117: Did Darwin’s Finches do Relatively Prime?
  17. Complexity analysis approach to tackling drug cartels
  18. Two years in: getstats
  19. Urgent review of Government calculations underway
  20. Foreign Office gives Bletchley Park £480,000 and announces GCHQ apprenticeships
  21. Women in Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
  22. Who wants to host a Celebration of Mind? There’s still time
  23. Nobel prize for economics awarded to a mathematician
  24. Advances in pure nonsense
  25. Cushing blogs
  26. The Calculus of Love, a short film
  27. Nobel week – a place for mathematics?
  28. Math/Maths 116: Non-Euclidean Whales and the Queen in Hyperspace
  29. Ferienne by Afiq Omar
  30. Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 5
  31. Katie Steckles interviewed on mathblogging.org
  32. Follow Friday, 12/10/12
  33. Carnival of Mathematics 91
  34. PRIMES-USA
  35. Henry Segerman’s 30-cell puzzle
  36. Probabilitelly
  37. Proof News
  38. Math/Maths 115: Isaac Newton’s Death (mask)
  39. IMA Early Career Mathematicians’ Conference Autumn 2012
  40. Manchester Science Festival Blog – Matt Parker’s Domino Computer
  41. Puzzlebomb – October 2012
  42. Surds: what are they good for?

September 2012

  1. Math/Maths 114: Relatively Prime taster – Chinook
  2. Elsevier has made lots more maths articles free to access
  3. Follow Friday
  4. Penrose fridge magnets kickstarter
  5. Cardboard SKI calculus
  6. NRICH Site has had a facelift
  7. New fonts on the site
  8. Zero Waste by Nick Sayers
  9. Newcastle MathsJam September 2012 Recap
  10. Robert Schneider, Mathematical Musician/Musical Mathematician
  11. Manchester MathsJam, September 2012
  12. "I’m not a mathematician, the maths I’m doing is really just basic modelling"
  13. Math/Maths 113: Boing! And Relatively Prime is Live
  14. Aperiodical Round Up 7: stamp of approval
  15. Calculus of the Nervous System
  16. Follow Friday, 21/9/12
  17. I told you so: Relatively Prime has begun
  18. Relatively Prime, All in a Name
  19. IMA Mathematics 2013 Conference
  20. To teach, must I principally research?
  21. Math/Maths 112: Matt Parker’s Domino Computer
  22. Steven Strogatz series on “what math can reveal about us and our world”
  23. AU defined as 149,597,870,700 metres
  24. Mathblogging.org ‘Mathematical Instruments’: interviews with mathematical bloggers
  25. Higgs boson discovery passes peer review
  26. Carnival of Mathematics 90
  27. #MTT2K: Teachers critique Khan Academy
  28. Rubik’s Tube
  29. Science Lives profile of Robert MacPherson
  30. ACMEScience NEWS NOW ep 2: Sally Dodson-Robinson
  31. It’s Imminently Time For Relatively Prime
  32. Number Gossip is back!
  33. Math/Maths 111: A Domino Computer on a Penrose Tiling
  34. Aperiodcast – 09/09/2012
  35. Puzzlebomb – September 2012
  36. Knitting Escher patterns
  37. Matt Parker needs help building a domino computer
  38. Geogebra for the iPad Kickstarter
  39. The Bletchley Circle: codebreaking thriller on ITV1
  40. Ri grants for UK schools mathematics enrichment activity
  41. Game of Life: a play
  42. Math/Maths 110: Subtraction is a both brain activity
  43. Video interview show with the researchers behind the science & maths news
  44. Measuring Square scarf by Sebastian Bergne
  45. Ada Lovelace Day Live!
  46. 11-category Venn diagram drawn
  47. Information and Inference: new journal with free content for two years
  48. A clue to deciphering Kryptos
  49. Maths and Paralympic Sport in Plus magazine
  50. A trailer for Keith Devlin’s Intro to Mathematical Thinking MOOC
  51. The Mathalicious weekly video series has launched

August 2012

  1. Prismatoy: a parallelepiped you can hold
  2. Using Computer Modern on the web
  3. Manchester MathsJam Recap, August 2012
  4. Let’s talk about X
  5. Math/Maths 109: How Dan Brown made the Golden Ratio popular
  6. Solid state quantum processor demonstrated running Shor’s prime factoring algorithm
  7. A-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics numbers continue to rise
  8. Engineered paper by Matthew Shlian
  9. Bill Thurston has died
  10. Knitted Spiky Icosahedron
  11. The Guardian’s open access round-up
  12. Math/Maths 108: Not burdened with modern theories
  13. David’s de Bruijn sequence card trick
  14. A glider on an aperiodic cellular automaton exists!
  15. G4G Celebration of Mind 2012 Event Map is live
  16. Inaugural ICO Alan Turing lecture
  17. Math/Maths 107: Peter’s new trek eases
  18. Carnival of Mathematics 89
  19. MAA MathFest Day 2
  20. MAA MathFest Day 1
  21. Science Media Centre’s ‘rather good’ guidelines for reporting science & health stories
  22. New UK economic and social data service to launch in October
  23. Matt Parker’s writing a book!
  24. The Mathematician’s Shirts
  25. Gaffe Theory: Mitt Romney’s followers are almost definitely robots, says analysis
  26. 2011 Census figures released
  27. International Maths Olympiad results
  28. A New Math Guide to the Olympics by Craig Damrauer
  29. Keith Devlin’s Mathematical Thinking MOOC opens for registrations
  30. Puzzlebomb – August 2012
  31. Understanding maths ‘more important than learning by rote’ shocker
  32. The Alan Turing (Statutory Pardon) Bill first reading
  33. Number Gossip has been killed. Can you help?

July 2012

  1. Mathematics: a culture of historical inaccuracy?
  2. 2nd series of School of Hard Sums
  3. Abel Prize 2013: Nominations open
  4. Aperiodcast – 29/07/2012
  5. Maths Jam July 2012 – Paper Enigma
  6. Math/Maths 106: Is Aberdeen excited about the horse dancing?
  7. Google search adds a scientific calculator
  8. Manchester MathsJam July 2012 Recap
  9. Get your bespoke artisanal hand-crafted integers here
  10. Arise, Baronne Daubechies
  11. The London Pie
  12. EngageU Recognition of Distinction for Maths Busking
  13. Math/Maths 105: Dolphins, Fruit flies & Lizard-inspired Robots
  14. Insect numeracy standards overtake KS2
  15. Reframe
  16. Capula Expanded Dodecahedron by Pedro Reyes
  17. London Mathematical Society Prizes 2012
  18. Numberphile
  19. Flatland 2 : Sphereland to be shown at MathFest
  20. MathsJam Annual Conference 2012 booking now open
  21. Duck Physics: review of an emerging field
  22. Sage launches an interactive demos site
  23. Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 4
  24. Open Access Round Up
  25. Ready: reaction-diffusion simulator
  26. ‘RightingBot’ simulates the way lizards right themselves when falling
  27. Colors of Math, a documentary movie
  28. More and Less
  29. Puzzlebomb – July 2012
  30. Math/Maths 104: Never mind Higgs; exact value discovered for pi
  31. Telegraph’s open letter to Michael Gove and Vince Cable on numeracy (presented with arithmetic errors)
  32. Lotka–Volterra competition models applied to LA street gang territories
  33. Dance Your PhD: Cutting Sequences on the Double Pentagon
  34. Inverse problem tracking pollutants to a source: new algorithm developed
  35. Carnival of Mathematics 88
  36. Turing centenary Turing Test results
  37. Have they discovered the Higgs boson? Probably
  38. Vocal signal processing method of testing for Parkinson’s disease
  39. Finger counting methods and their effect on cognition
  40. Bletchley Park raises funding target for Heritage Lottery Fund restoration; further funding needed
  41. Research finds that maths-heavy evolutionary biology research papers are less often cited
  42. Carnival of Mathematics 88
  43. Turing debate in Parliament
  44. Leap Second 30 June 2012

June 2012

  1. Math/Maths 103: In which every equation halves the listenership
  2. Hang on a second
  3. π vs τ: FOTSN/Tau Day special
  4. Etienne Ghys, 2012 LMS Hardy Lecturer
  5. Math/Maths 102: Turing, mad scientist & Newton, action hero
  6. Spelling Bees Puzzle Blog
  7. An answer to what Shouryya Ray’s ‘unsolved Newton problem’ was
  8. Manchester MathsJam June 2012 Recap
  9. Turing Round Up
  10. Bletchley Park Turing First Day Cover
  11. Unusual prime number competition results
  12. Tony Mann to lecture on ‘Computing Mathematics’ at Gresham College
  13. Tickets now available for the opening of the Museum of Mathematics in New York
  14. Historical anniversaries: are they worth celebrating?
  15. Aperiodcast – 21/06/2012
  16. Ability with fractions and division aged 10 predicts ability with algebra aged 16
  17. Instant MathJax preview of LaTeX typed into HTML textareas
  18. Math/Maths 101: Ian Stewart Live from the Cheltenham Festival
  19. A possible contender to the Duckworth-Lewis method
  20. Mirror which could eliminate drivers’ blind spot receives US patent
  21. The Turing Solution: radio documentary
  22. Sir Tim Gowers
  23. James Grime: Campaign for the Turing Tenner
  24. Good Practice Scheme to support women in mathematics
  25. MAA MathFest 2012
  26. A huggermuggering nonannouncement of an overinvolved knickknack
  27. Fibonacci Grids
  28. Topology Gossip
  29. The Super Subtraction Feat
  30. Out-of-work economists will probably not turn to bank robbery
  31. Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education Conference 2012
  32. Draft UK primary mathematics changes for consultation
  33. Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions
  34. One half of one percent of your time
  35. “Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks” – 10 years on
  36. Math52 reaches Kickstarter goal
  37. Film “The Turing Enigma” online for free
  38. Converting a stream of binary digits to a stream of base $n$ digits
  39. Problems I’m currently thinking about
  40. P-Value Extravaganza
  41. Math/Maths 100: 2nd Birthday Spectacular – What’s your project?
  42. 12th Forum of Young Women Mathematicians
  43. Topics from the second year of the Math/Maths Podcast
  44. Robot choreography and coupled oscillators
  45. Ask a mathematician: “Where should we live?”
  46. Carnival of Mathematics 87
  47. How the shape of the glasses causes bubbles in Guinness to appear to sink
  48. WLTM real number. Must be normal and enjoy long walks on the plane
  49. Aperiodcast – 3/6/2012
  50. National Science & Engineering Competition at your local Big Bang Fair
  51. Model for processing language in context
  52. First International Data Journalism Awards winners announced
  53. The mathematics examinations faced by school leavers in the Republic of Ireland
  54. New York Museum of Mathematics will open on December 15th, 2012
  55. The Moment
  56. Mathematics in Education and Industry Conference 2012
  57. Model suggests factors affecting size and shape of platelet blood cells
  58. New strategy for winning the iterated prisoner’s dilemma
  59. Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle – 3rd June
  60. Math/Maths 99: Beer, Flying Carpets and Sarcastic AI
  61. Loebner tires of Loebner Prize, discusses future of thinking machines
  62. Campaign to disregard Turing’s conviction
  63. Marcus du Sautoy interview; Marcus supports the Telegraph’s numeracy campaign
  64. Tony Mann on Atiyah and Villani at Tate Modern
  65. Internet Problem Solving Contest
  66. More maths at Hay Festival
  67. Markov Chains avoid buses arriving in threes
  68. EPSRC very quietly relents on maths funding
  69. Puzzlebomb – June 2012
  70. Some Turing-related articles free to read for a short period of time, thanks to T&F
  71. Math/Maths Podcast 100th episode: What’s your current project?

May 2012

  1. Humans v Nature – Engineering comedy show
  2. The Dramatic Life of Numbers: Marcus du Sautoy at Hay Festival
  3. The Table Never Lies
  4. Alex Bellos wants to know the world’s most random number
  5. Like everybody else, you too can be unique. Just keep shuffling
  6. Has schoolboy genius solved problems that baffled mathematicians for centuries?
  7. Festival Of The Spoken Nerd UK Tour
  8. Eric Schmidt wants Britain to want to be the best at maths
  9. Call for submissions: articles on the Maths of Planet Earth for Mathematics Today special issue
  10. Math/Maths 98: Why do buses come in Markov chains?
  11. Open Access Update – 25th of May
  12. Aperiodical Round Up 6 – It glides to a stop as it reaches the end of the power stroke
  13. Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle: 25th May
  14. Caten by David Letellier
  15. Linear Programming: problem solving starting point
  16. “Tenet” – Galois on stage
  17. The life and times of Paul the Psychic Octopus
  18. Good times for A-Level mathematics but issues need to be addressed earlier
  19. Math/Maths 97: Travelling Salesman Movie Special
  20. Sir Michael Atiyah and Cédric Villani talk at Tate Modern
  21. All metro systems eventually have the same shape
  22. Modelling obesity
  23. Modified packing problem might save lives
  24. Looking at mathematical literature as literature
  25. P-p-p-publicise a paper!
  26. The strange case of Misha Verbitsky and the trademarked beard
  27. Octave (Like MATLAB but free) for Android phones and tablets
  28. In what flipping dimension is a square peg in a round hole just as good as a round peg in a square hole?
  29. AMS introduces “mobile pairing” to enable access from tablets
  30. What’s the intersection of the set of mathematicians and the set of popes?
  31. New journals attempting to address publication bias
  32. Math52: A Fresh Way to Teach?
  33. Flat tori in three-dimensional space and convex integration
  34. Aperiodcast – 13/5/2012
  35. Math/Maths 96: Permeated by Robot Noise
  36. Life imitates Life
  37. Parallel postulate not proven after all – paper retracted as having “no scientific content”
  38. Curved Crease Sculptures by Erik and Martin Demaine
  39. MAA Mathematical Petting Zoo
  40. Follow the timeline of Alan Turing’s life
  41. Some infinities (and egos) are bigger than others
  42. Carnival of Mathematics 86
  43. The number line is not an intuitive concept
  44. Trace Heavens by James Nizam
  45. Puzzlebomb – May 2012
  46. The Cryptographer by Raw Color
  47. Math/Maths 95: Massively Multiplayer Online Mathematics
  48. Matt Parker’s maths problem page in The Telegraph
  49. “Futurama theorem” slightly improved
  50. Report criticises level of mathematics in A-level science
  51. Grow Your Own Food
  52. IMA YouTube page launched
  53. World record mass Rubik’s Cube solving attempt in aid of youth homelessness charity
  54. Today only: The Geek Atlas ebook half price
  55. Protection of Freedoms Act 2012
  56. Wikipedia adds MathJax display option
  57. Feminine role models found to not motivate girls to study maths
  58. Mathematical thinking and religious belief
  59. City & Guilds survey on views of maths – says more about media stereotyping?
  60. A student is artistic and loves poetry. Is it more likely she’s studying Chinese or Business?
  61. Saharon Shelah has written more than 1000 papers
  62. Ideas Illustrated

April 2012

  1. The Aperiodcast – week of 23/4/2012
  2. Talk: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine, by James Grime
  3. A mathematician’s survival guide, by Peter Casazza
  4. Math/Maths 94: Broadcasting From A Hollowed Out Volcano
  5. MathsJam April 2012 Photos
  6. Knit your mother’s sweater
  7. Model predicts prevalence of left-handedness in sports populations
  8. Shadow Box by Laura Kishimoto
  9. The Odds Gods smile on birthday/card matches
  10. What’s the (implicit) equation for “equation”?
  11. 2012 Loebner Prize to be held at Bletchley Park & streamed online
  12. Carnival of Mathematics 86 submissions are due
  13. APPROXYMOTION by Peter A Vikar
  14. Classic maths books reset with LaTeX on Project Gutenberg
  15. New Careers section on Plus Magazine
  16. Volcanic eruptions follow Benford’s Law
  17. Biography of Turing by his mother republished
  18. Running model in reverse to determine rate of extinction not reliable
  19. Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ
  20. Inclusion and Exclusion and the new GMAT
  21. Video: A Klein Slinky
  22. Introducing The Aperiodical
  23. The aperiodical
  24. Klein: outside the bottle
  25. Top N Facts about the Klein Bottle
  26. Manchester MathsJam April 2012 Recap
  27. Math/Maths 93: TW’s School of Hard Sums
  28. What is a mathematician?
  29. Newcastle MathsJam April 2012 Recap
  30. Slides – “Putting maths notation online”
  31. Newcastle MathsJam March 2012 Recap
  32. Spherikal by Ion
  33. UK Open Sudoku and Puzzle Tournaments
  34. A little applet to make maths for screengrabbing
  35. Japanese researchers create a crab-based computer
  36. Hunger Games survival analysis
  37. Maths and Music Lecture April 23rd Thame | Pulse-Project.org
  38. School of Hard Sums doubles the normal Dave audience
  39. Math/Maths 92: Put Alan Turing on a Buckliball
  40. Racism in academic mathematics in America
  41. Maths outreach isn’t easy, compared with science
  42. What a nice job you have
  43. BAMC writing prize
  44. Electoral reforms and non-transitive dice
  45. Labyrinth salt installation by Motoi Yamamoto
  46. Press release mayhem
  47. Laziest torus identified
  48. John Wood & Paul Harrison “One more kilometre”
  49. MathsJam March 2012 Photos
  50. Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 3
  51. Maths Busking enters university outreach & public engagement competition
  52. Minds of Modern Mathematics iPad App
  53. Short, short sci fi #TBSFA
  54. Origami Tessellations by Eric Gjerde
  55. Math/Maths 91: Gathering for Gardner 10
  56. ‘School Of Hard Sums’ maths gameshow
  57. Third IMA Virtual Branch talk: ‘Dissections – highlights from a masterclass’ by Bernard Murphy
  58. Carnival of Mathematics 85
  59. April Fools on the arXiv
  60. Money Polyhedra by Kristi Malakoff
  61. May I publish a letter from my MP without permission?
  62. History of Mathematics Undergraduate Essay Prize
  63. Turing-Tape Games: A Challenge in Algorithmic Problem Solving
  64. Math Awareness Month: Mathematics, Statistics, and the Data Deluge
  65. Bacteria may “play” Prisoner’s Dilemma
  66. Infographic – Women in STEM
  67. What sank the Titanic?
  68. IMA W. Mids 17 April: ‘Routing Military Convoys’ by Andy Verity-Harrison
  69. Intersections: Art inspired by maths at the Science Museum
  70. Gathering for Gardner 10 #g4g10
  71. Slides about the princess in a castle puzzle
  72. Words to Fill Space
  73. All mathematical blogging to cease

March 2012

  1. Puzzlebomb – April 2012
  2. Para Clocks by LeeLABS
  3. Carnival of Mathematics in a Mathblogging.org world
  4. Carnival of Mathematics page launched
  5. MacMahon Squares
  6. John Conway profile
  7. Devlin’s 21st C. mathematician that can’t be outsourced
  8. Advance in snowflake growth simulation
  9. Emmy Noether biography in NY Times
  10. 30th Anniversary LMS Popular Lectures: Gowers and Penrose
  11. On Disreputable Numbers
  12. Manchester MathsJam March 2012 Recap
  13. Put Alan Turing on bitcoins
  14. Math/Maths 90: Maths is to Mathematics as Math is to…?
  15. 2012 Abel Prize awarded to Endre Szemerédi
  16. BBC R&D automatic tagging of speech audio using vector spaces
  17. Behind closed doors: the Spanish intelligence service
  18. Investigative journalist attempts to test whether GCSE maths is ‘dumbed down’
  19. NASA Angry Birds partnership
  20. Spanish link in cracking the Enigma code
  21. New NCETM contract awarded
  22. Music and alcohol may improve maths and problem solving skills
  23. Turing bank note petition
  24. Turing sunflower experiment as part of Manchester science festival
  25. A scientific and graphing calculator in Minecraft
  26. Carnival of Mathematics – The Next Generation
  27. Reviving the Carnival of Mathematics
  28. Visualising the wrong data on the Guardian data blog
  29. MathsJam February 2012 Photos
  30. Math/Maths 89: Remark on a Theorem of Hilbert
  31. Message sent using beam of neutrinos
  32. Dispute over mathematical music dismissed
  33. Mathematics Matters – a Parliamentary view of the importance of mathematics
  34. Survey finds pupils rate STEM jobs but find STEM subjects too difficult or boring
  35. Maths Careers photo competition
  36. Mockus, mathematician-king
  37. Puzzlebomb – March 2012
  38. HyperRogue II – a roguelike on the hyperbolic plane
  39. Happy π day
  40. How to calculate π
  41. Conformal Models of Hyperbolic Geometry by Vladimir Bulatov
  42. Tiles by Claesson Koivisto Rune
  43. London Day Trip Stop 4: Sir John Soane’s Museum
  44. Jonathan Millican wins UK Cyber Security Challenge
  45. Math/Maths 88: Entertaining, or illegal?
  46. Aperiodical Round Up – follow Brits and draw Rubik’s cube cartoon, says the most useless law in the solar system
  47. Are these game shows so lacking in skill they’re gambling?
  48. Another black and white hats puzzle
  49. New model may explain leaf growth
  50. Awards for statistical excellence in journalism
  51. Using a zero-knowledge protocol to prove you can solve a sudoku
  52. Previous Aperiodical Round Ups
  53. MathsJam Manchester, February 2012
  54. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Culturally an academic
  55. IMA Bulletin Volume 1, Issue 1
  56. The Turing Digital Archive is online
  57. A Noether Theorem for Markov Processes
  58. Perspectives of the regular solid
  59. London Day Trip Stop 3: British Museum
  60. A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science
  61. The Body Counter
  62. Causa Efecto by Ana Soler
  63. London Day Trip Stop 2: Russell Square

February 2012

  1. The months are drawing in
  2. London Day Trip Stop 1: British Library
  3. PRISMATICA by Kit Webster
  4. Stereotype-abiding mathematicians of the world, unite!
  5. Math/Maths 87: Faulty Cables, Ridiculous Buses & Intergalactic Steroids
  6. The Slocum Mechanical Puzzle Collection is now online
  7. MathPuzzle.com updated
  8. Inspirations by Cristóbal Vila
  9. Science Showoff
  10. Two possible errors in FTL neutrino result
  11. IBM piloting Watson as cloud analytics service
  12. Edexcel chief says the maths curriculum is failing students
  13. Invisibility from elastic waves
  14. Computer programme with 150 IQ
  15. Nominations: Award for statistical excellence in the pharmaceutical industry
  16. Talk: Two Dictionaries of Mathematics, 1679 and 1989 by David Nelson
  17. Geometric snow art
  18. Deriving dynamical equations is NP-Hard
  19. Fractal dimension in IKEA
  20. Picture this!, an interactive problem/puzzle
  21. Rising chair by Robert van Embricqs
  22. Pricing bot interactions
  23. Almost all above average
  24. Newcastle MathsJam February 2012 Recap
  25. Turing stamp issued tomorrow
  26. Alex the parrot could count to eight
  27. Geo by Mika Barr for Talents Design
  28. Experimental evidence for Turing’s morphogensis mechanism
  29. Playing Games With Squares
  30. Why maths, Dara O’Briain?
  31. Shaping capabilities, but not maths yet
  32. IBM boasts it is “world’s largest employer of PhD mathematicians”
  33. Prime number puzzles from Matt Parker
  34. Barriers to teaching
  35. Math/Maths 86: Complex Pony Tails
  36. Reading around the Alan Turing Pardon
  37. A puzzle from James Grime about abcdef
  38. The True Importance of Friends
  39. Things to do in London on a Tuesday
  40. George and Julian
  41. Ian Stewart on Black-Scholes
  42. Math/Maths 85: Scientists vs. Investment Bankers
  43. Met Office Weather Game – early results
  44. Wolfram|Alpha Pro
  45. Bridging the Mathematics Gap: your views
  46. Every odd integer larger than 1 is the sum of at most five primes
  47. Interesting Esoterica Summation
  48. Buchstabengewitter by Inigo Italic
  49. MATH PROBLEMS?
  50. Ceramic sculpture by Eva Hild
  51. Mathematicians are people too
  52. A 17×17 4-colouring with no monochromatic rectangles
  53. No pardon for Turing
  54. Puzzlebomb 2 released
  55. Math/Maths 84: A π-curious Nerd
  56. Putting all the world’s water in buckets
  57. Conference: IMA Mathematics 2012
  58. Paper light shades by Lazerian
  59. Cubes "portraits" by daha mobilier
  60. Newcastle MathsJam January 2012 Recap
  61. Why do we enjoy maths history misconceptions?
  62. Puzzlebomb – February 2012
  63. Open mic for science communication
  64. singingbanana code challenge

January 2012

  1. Three new Mathematics Matters case studies
  2. Alan Turing Pardon: Early Day Motion
  3. A dozen stats tips for journalists
  4. 2012 BSA Media Fellows – call for applications
  5. Puzzle from Maths Jam Nottingham: Kathryn’s cube of cheese
  6. How to get beautifully typeset maths on your blog
  7. Apparently Gauss got in this bar fight with Hilbert…
  8. Puzzle from Maths Jam Nottingham: Jon’s coloured balls
  9. Origami masks and tessellations by Joel Cooper
  10. Maths Jam Conference talk write-ups
  11. Interesting Esoterica Summation
  12. Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light
  13. Why the hot light bulb annoys me
  14. Favourite popular mathematics books
  15. E-Learning in Mathematical Subjects
  16. Paula Swisheer
  17. The sign on my office door
  18. What is mathematics?
  19. Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture
  20. Have you used maths in the news in school?
  21. Three Cubes Colliding by Ivan Morison and Heather Peak
  22. Card trick video from Christian Perfect
  23. Newcastle MathsJam December 2011 Recap
  24. 300 posts later, who is Peter Rowlett?
  25. Puzzlebomb – January 2012

2011 109

December 2011

  1. Implied Geometry by Jim Sanborn
  2. Nobel prize for mathematics
  3. Christmas presents
  4. Pictorial proofs
  5. Figurative Sculptures by Manuel Martí Moreno
  6. Why I like some bad maths stories
  7. ‘Bad maths’ news stories
  8. Dice sculptures by Tony Cragg
  9. Loomi: A Modular Light Kit
  10. Early Morning Mathematics
  11. Gingerbread geodesic dome by Scout Regalia
  12. Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)
  13. Wooden QR code stool by Elena Belmann
  14. Shifting decline of mathematical preparedness?

November 2011

  1. XYZT, Les paysages abstraits by Adrien M / Claire B
  2. My Erdős number?
  3. Dés-gravité by Suzy Lelièvre
  4. 10,000 by Francis Hollenkamp
  5. Woolly Thoughts: in pursuit of crafty mathematics
  6. Cloud Cities by Tomás Saraceno
  7. “11:11” collection by Winde Rienstra

October 2011

  1. Oh, email
  2. How many barleycorn in a giant slipper?
  3. La somme des hypothèses by Vincent Mauger
  4. ARCHEOLOGY/DIET by STUDIOLAV
  5. Experimental checking
  6. Parmenides I by Dev Harlan
  7. La fabrique sonore by Ali Monemi and Robin Meier
  8. Least world records
  9. Sun Ray Ricochet by Matt W. Moore
  10. Second-Rate Minds: my second post
  11. Flightpattern by Gwen Vanhee
  12. Sarah
  13. Wholemovement by Bradford Hansen-Smith

September 2011

  1. Beyond Infinity by Serge Salat
  2. 2011 Times Square ball
  3. Proto Beanstalk
  4. Augmented Structures by Salon
  5. Twist Exhibition Centre by Abraham Garcia
  6. Random Geometry wallpaper by Nama Rococo
  7. Modular furniture by Sanjin Halilović
  8. Twitter ‘worse at counting than hyenas’
  9. Nottingham Maths Jam on BBC Radio Nottingham
  10. A brisk trade in souvenir mugs
  11. Folded photographs by Abigail Reynolds
  12. Alan Turing by Stephen Kettle

August 2011

  1. Structures of Warped Surfaces by Eduardo F. Catalano
  2. Unexpected GCSE Success at Your Local School
  3. Tessellation Tree greeting card by Nikki Cross Applesauce
  4. Prime number counting chart by electricboogaloo
  5. Waldorf Math Gnomes by MamaWestWind
  6. Second-Rate Minds
  7. Key-ring model of the Hopf fibration by David Richter
  8. Fibonacci Wedding Cake by Kim Arbios
  9. Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold
  10. From Our Own Mathematics Correspondent
  11. Hot research question: Do mathematicians like pizza?
  12. Spheres by Nick Sayers
  13. King’s Cross station takes shape
  14. People may not like Vorderman, but her report?
  15. Study by Imaginary Foundation
  16. MÖBIUS by ENESS
  17. Three Times Seven by Doc & Merle Watson
  18. Echoes Reality 4D by Max Cooper
  19. Love and Tensor Algebra by Stanisław Lem
  20. Relatively Prime is funded
  21. Next time you wake up, Relatively Prime will be a missed opportunity… unless you act! 5 key facts
  22. Möbius Bracelet by miette

July 2011

  1. On communication and Google+
  2. Numerically Controlled by Matt W. Moore
  3. Tessellation Formation 3 by Matthew Shlian
  4. Three-dimensional finite point groups and the symmetry of beaded beads
  5. Views of the Tesseract by theFOUNDRY
  6. Braille Rubik’s Cube by Konstantin Datz
  7. Geometric nightclub by Fred Mafra
  8. Hints about Relatively Prime
  9. Relatively Prime is failing; what you can do to help
  10. The unplanned impact of mathematics

June 2011

  1. Maths at the East Midlands Big Bang Fair
  2. Developing mathematical thinking – a generational problem?
  3. Why I supported Relatively Prime and you should too
  4. Topics from the first year of the Math/Maths Podcast

May 2011

  1. Math/Maths Podcast – 1 year and 50 episodes later
  2. Too old for such silly toys
  3. HE Mathematics HE Curriculum Summit in THE
  4. Smart Phone Apps for University Mathematics
  5. Maths of AV: a reading list

April 2011

  1. Mathematical podcasting
  2. ‘Technology in mathematics HE teaching & learning’
  3. ‘Innovation in mathematics HE teaching & learning’
  4. Hidden Science Map
  5. Types of scientist (or mathematician)
  6. Audio and video content produced during Math/Maths Week 2010
  7. Math/Maths History Tour of Nottingham 3/3 – When Einstein came to town

March 2011

  1. Reflections on a short puzzle in Elluminate
  2. Invasion of privacy
  3. Census 2011: What did I do?
  4. Math/Maths History Tour of Nottingham 2/3 – George Green: Miller, Mathematician, and Physicist
  5. Census 2011: What do I do?
  6. Links to enthuse about mathematics
  7. Math/Maths History Tour Locations
  8. Math/Maths History Tour of Nottingham 1/3 – Computing: Burroughs Adding Machines & Ada Lovelace
  9. PhD questionnaire

February 2011

  1. Samuel Hansen’s Big Week of Podcasts
  2. 400 words in 30 minutes on why I took maths further
  3. 400 words in 30 minutes on sexy primes

January 2011

  1. 400 words in 30 minutes on chaos and the weather
  2. Pedantry on Euler and masts
  3. Cosmic-Ray Research Centre and Cold War Helter-Skelter in Secret Cave City

2010 70

December 2010

  1. Math/Maths in Google Books Ngrams
  2. Intros to the Math/Maths Podcast
  3. MathsJam Nottingham

November 2010

  1. 400 words in 30 minutes on zero
  2. Math/Maths LIVE from Greenwich!
  3. Math/Maths LIVE from MathsJam!
  4. Carnival of Mathematics 71 is published

October 2010

  1. These are your important living mathematicians
  2. An appeal, for Samuel Hansen
  3. Math/Maths Week!
  4. Math/Maths Podcast Live Recording
  5. Web resources for a 14 year old girl struggling with maths & confidence
  6. Who are your important living mathematicians?
  7. Ed & me

September 2010

  1. Is Ed Miliband a "maths geek"?
  2. How I wish I could calculate #pihunt
  3. Dear all: Change of job, email
  4. Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon

August 2010

  1. Prime birthdays via Wolfram|Alpha
  2. On the Decline of Mathematical Studies, and ever was it so
  3. Teaching/research importance
  4. What is the Math/Maths Podcast?

July 2010

  1. Podcast Finale/Trailer
  2. Podcast: Episode 64 – Peter McOwan, his career
  3. Mathematics Today August 2010: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  4. New Maths Building
  5. Podcast: Episode 63 – Rhys Phillips, Electrostatic hazards in aircraft
  6. My puzzles stall
  7. Podcast: Episode 62 – William Simpson, Solar physics
  8. Podcast: Episode 61 – Chris Marchant, Outreach
  9. Podcast: Episode 60 – Sarah Norton, systems engineering
  10. Wanted: IMA University Liaison Officer
  11. Podcast: Episode 59 – Katie Steckles and Rufus Roberts, Maths busking
  12. Podcast: Episode 58 – Ben Beech, Air Traffic Control
  13. Unbroadcastable, an ode to podcasting
  14. Carnival of Mathematics #67

June 2010

  1. Math/Maths Podcast – new webpage and RSS feed
  2. Second Math/Maths Podcast
  3. Mathematics Today June 2010: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  4. The Carnival is coming to town
  5. 200 posts later, who is Peter Rowlett?
  6. Math/Maths Podcast: 5136 miles of mathematics
  7. Strongly Connected Components Episode 18

May 2010

  1. What has happened to the podcast?
  2. Shape of the cosmos
  3. Advice on running a lottery

April 2010

  1. What do mathematicians do?
  2. TEXTp lives!
  3. ASCII Art Me

March 2010

  1. Podcast: Episode 57 – History of Maths and x, Shape of the cosmos: Developments from Newton to Einstein
  2. Mathematics Today April 2010: University Liaison Officer’s Report

February 2010

  1. Podcast: Episode 56 – Edmund Harriss, Development and teaching of mathematical ideas
  2. Podcast: Episode 55 – Edmund Harriss, Tilings, motivations and Street Maths
  3. Countability and uncountability in Facebook groups
  4. Podcast: Episode 54 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  5. Truchet, Braille and Euler
  6. Carnival of Mathematics
  7. Podcast: Episode 53 – Robert Harter – Water waves

January 2010

  1. Podcast: Episode 52 – Jackie Grinsell, Mathematics teaching
  2. Reading list for a keen 13 year old mathematician
  3. Mathematics Today February 2010: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  4. Podcast: Episode 51 – Sebastien Guenneau, Optical wave guides and applied mathematics research
  5. Maths Maps
  6. Macro December
  7. Where I’ve been and what I did there… on a map
  8. Macro November
  9. Macro October
  10. A life in the IMA
  11. "Substitution ciphers: Ancient – Renaissance"
  12. 22, 38, 54, 26, 42, 58, 30, 46, 62

2009 104

December 2009

  1. Podcast: Episode 50 – Sebastien Guenneau, Invisibility cloaks
  2. Podcast: Episode 49 – History of Maths and x, Substitution ciphers: Ancient – Renaissance

November 2009

  1. Podcast: Episode 48 – Andrea Donafee, Cash balance optimisation
  2. Mathematics Today December 2009: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  3. Podcast: Episode 47 – Mark Blyth, Applications of fluid dynamics in biology
  4. Slider puzzle
  5. Podcast: Episode 46 – Frank Kelly, random processes, networks and optimization
  6. Podcast: Episode 45 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

October 2009

  1. Maths money savers
  2. Podcast: Episode 44 – Andrew Cates, his career
  3. Podcast: Episode 43 – Victor Arulchandran, wave dispersion and PhD skills
  4. Barcodes
  5. Podcast: Episode 42 – Ed Galea, His career, part 2: Crowd evacuation modelling
  6. Podcast: Episode 41 – Ed Galea, His career, part 1: How astrophysics leads to steel casting and fire modelling
  7. Podcast: Episode 40 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  8. Turing apology

September 2009

  1. Mathematics Today October: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  2. Where I’ve been and what I did there
  3. Podcast: Episode 39 – Beatrice Pelloni, Applications of Fourier transforms
  4. Advice for new PGCE mathematics student
  5. You may also like…
  6. So I have a blog (redux)

August 2009

  1. E-Learning in Mathematical Subjects online videos
  2. Mathematics Today August: University Liaison Officer’s Report

July 2009

  1. Podcast People 2008/9
  2. European Postgraduate Fluid Dynamics Conference at Nottingham
  3. Podcast: Episode 38 – David Spiegelhalter, Public understanding of risk
  4. Podcast: Episode 37 – David Mitchell, Channel coding and maths in engineering
  5. Podcast: Episode 36 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  6. Royal Society Summer Science 2009 – my interest

June 2009

  1. Video: Where can studying mathematics take you?
  2. Podcast: Episode 35 – Terry Edwards – Chartered Mathematician
  3. Podcast: Episode 34 – Eugenia Cheng, Category theory
  4. Echoes in an empty room
  5. Podcast: Episode 33 – David Fearn, Magnetohydrodynamics
  6. Mathematics Today June: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  7. Wolfram Alpha and its geeky sense of humour
  8. Podcast: Episode 32 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

May 2009

  1. Podcast: Episode 31 – Matt Parker, Maths communication
  2. Maths Promotion and new technologies
  3. Podcast: Episode 30 -Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Ramanujan
  4. Wolfram|Alpha: Sometimes answering the question misses the point
  5. Podcast: Episode 29 – Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Evolutionary algorithms for financial applications
  6. The use of Careers Advisory Services
  7. Serverfail
  8. Puzzling over careers in York
  9. Wii ball games in Newcastle and Sheffield
  10. Conferences on Mathematics in London
  11. Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009
  12. Podcast: Episode 28 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd

April 2009

  1. What’s pi got to do with it?
  2. Podcast: Episode 27 – Oliver Jensen, British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009
  3. Meet the Mathematicians video
  4. British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009
  5. Podcast Episode 26: Chris Budd, Confessions of an Industrial Mathematican
  6. Mathematics Today April: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  7. Meet the Mathematicians
  8. Podcast Episode 25: History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Fibonacci
  9. Maths at uni in The Indy
  10. Podcast: Episode 24 – John Sharp, Maths and Art
  11. Chalk and talk and interactive whiteboards

March 2009

  1. The view on careers from a tower overlooking London
  2. Podcast: Episode 23 – Paul Shepherd, Decimation and Subdivision
  3. Neil Goldwasser on Maths Careers
  4. Podcast Episode 22: Mike Maher, Transport modelling
  5. 9 is an experimental error
  6. Podcast Episode 21: History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Turing
  7. Spinning careers in Leicester
  8. Who watches the listeners?
  9. Podcast Episode 20: Choi-Hong Lai, Fluid dynamics
  10. 100 posts later, who is Peter Rowlett?

February 2009

  1. All degrees are not created equal
  2. Podcast: Episode 19 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  3. Goodbye, Scotland
  4. James Clerk Maxwell statue in Edinburgh
  5. Crisis and Careers in Edinburgh
  6. Glasgow
  7. Careers in the home of golf
  8. Aberdeen
  9. Talk to Scottish Branch
  10. Careers in Cardiff
  11. Podcast Episode 18: Jane Wess, Science Museum
  12. At Brunel giving the same talk, differently
  13. Wii ball games in Greenwich
  14. Hold the bandwagon, I want to get on
  15. Bristol
  16. Podcast Episode 17: History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw, al-Kharazmi
  17. Most southerly maths careers
  18. Circles, round and otherwise, and after-talk networking at Birmingham
  19. Careers in Greenwich
  20. Podcast Episode 16 – Chris Bailey, Cutty Sark Restoration
  21. Podcast: Episode 15 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  22. Maths = A Good Job

January 2009

  1. Membership pays
  2. Mathematics Today February: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  3. Careers talk at Greenwich
  4. Podcast: Episode 14 – Paul Shepherd – Parametric Geometry Generation
  5. Careers advice for mathematicians
  6. Obscure number facts
  7. iSquared Magazine
  8. London University Events
  9. Podcast: Episode 13 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Florence Nightingale
  10. Mathematics graduates’ employability skills
  11. Podcast: Episode 12 – Terry Lyons – Stochastic Calculus

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December 2008

  1. Podcast: Episode 11 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Euler
  2. Always carry an emergency Maths Careers postcard
  3. Podcast: Episode 10 – Adrian Bowyer (part 2)
  4. Maths careers = cool?
  5. Podcast: Episode 9 – Adrian Bowyer (part 1)

November 2008

  1. Mathematics Today December: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  2. Podcast: Episode 8 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  3. IMA Prize Giving at King’s
  4. 9th Younger Mathematicians Conference
  5. Quite interesting
  6. Podcast: Episode 7 – Neil Goldwasser – Dyslexia Support and Adult Numeracy
  7. Podcast: Episode 6 – History with Noel-Ann Bradshaw – Galois
  8. Nerd Sniping
  9. Calculating Careers in Manchester
  10. Podcast: Episode 5 – Nira Chamberlain, Mathematical Modelling Consultant

October 2008

  1. Thinking Mathematically in Greenwich
  2. Podcast: Episode 4 – Maths news with Sarah Shepherd
  3. New Unified Mathematical Society
  4. Podcast: Episode 3 – Dr. Joanna Hartley, Public Transport Modelling
  5. Somewhere between 78 and 120 people are listening (possibly)
  6. Podcast: Episode 2 – Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Newton and Leibniz
  7. Enigmatic SUMS in Leicester
  8. Podcast: Episode 1 – Professor Philip Maini, Oxford – Maths Biology
  9. Back and forth to Birmingham

September 2008

  1. Mathematics Today October: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  2. Podcast: Episode 0 – Prelude
  3. The Sound of His Own Voice
  4. iSquared Magazine Autumn
  5. Mileage

July 2008

  1. Mathematics Today August: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  2. Careers for Mathematicians
  3. Distinguished Lecture in Computational Mechanobiology
  4. ECMI 2008

June 2008

  1. IMA Membership: An option for Oxford Mathematicians?
  2. The West of England

May 2008

  1. Sponsorship for students to attend ECMI 2008
  2. Mathematics Today June: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  3. A week in Cardiff
  4. Manchester Students Research Conference

April 2008

  1. Manchester Mathsoc Ball
  2. IMA Sticker in the wild
  3. Licence to practice mathematics
  4. A purple door and more in Portsmouth
  5. Dinner with the East Midlands Branch
  6. Sunny, spring day in Oxford
  7. Cricketing at Trent Bridge
  8. An historic meeting

March 2008

  1. Missing stickers
  2. Mathematics Today April: University Liaison Officer’s Report
  3. Life, Logic and so on
  4. Rainy but useful time at Bristol
  5. Holidaying in Bath
  6. Interesting Reading in the careers library
  7. Reading
  8. Life on the train
  9. Truchet Art
  10. Receiving Marcus’ wisdom

February 2008

  1. Quake hits London!
  2. A silly waste of time: YouTube
  3. Professor Clement Workman Jones CMath FIMA
  4. A Millennium of Mathematical Puzzles
  5. Greenwich and Gresham
  6. IMA Lancs & NW event
  7. Shiny new building in Manchester
  8. A note on the title
  9. So I have a blog

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