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2026 77
October 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 70
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6F
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6E
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6D
- Carnival of Maths 255
- The last four digits of 16¹⁶
September 2026
- Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6C
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6B
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6A
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 69
- Carnival of Maths 254
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: aboutlogic
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 68
August 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 67
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 66
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Ellie Sleightholm
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 65
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 64
- Carnival of Maths 253
- Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2026
July 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 63
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: MathsWithKala
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 62
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 61
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 60
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5F
- Aperiodical News Roundup – June 2026
June 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5E
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: StanDoesMath
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5D
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2026
- Book review – The Beauty of Falling by Claudia de Rham
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5C
- Carnival of Maths 252
- Aperiodical News Roundup – April/May 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5B
May 2026
- Talking Maths in… Coventry Transport Museum
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5A
- Book review – A Guide to Infinity: Ten Mathematical Journeys by Edward R. Scheinerman
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 59
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 58
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 57
- Carnival of Maths 251
April 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 56
- Review: Huge Numbers by Richard Elwes
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 55
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 54
- Carnival of Maths 250
- Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 53
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 52
March 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 51
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 50
- 10 years of the “Is this prime?” game – time to analyse more results
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4F
- Carnival of Maths 249
- Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4E
February 2026
- Prime time: now with annoying notifications!
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4D
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4C
- Mathematical Objects: A Norbert Wiener Story
- Carnival of Maths 248
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4B
- Number Builder: can you build up from 1 to the target?
- Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4A
January 2026
- Mathematical Objects: Certified Mathematical Object sticker with Chris Nho
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 49
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 48
- Mathematical Objects: A taxicab
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 47
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 46
- Aperiodical News Roundup – December 2025
- Carnival of Maths 247
- Mathematical Objects: Venn diagram with Keisha Thompson
2025 108
December 2025
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2026
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 45
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 44
- Mathematical Objects: Slice of pizza
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 43
- Interview: Jigsy puzzle app
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 42
- 200 3D printed shapes, 480 children, and a lot of paint 😬
- Mathematical Objects: Cardioid with Dominika Vasilkova
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 41
- Carnival of Maths 246
- Aperiodical News Roundup – October & November 2025
November 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 40
- Beach Spectres update – I’ve made a big tile!
- Mathematical Objects: Roman dodecahedron
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3F
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3E
- Mathematical Objects: 3D wooden puzzle with Grant Sanderson
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3D
- Carnival of Maths 245
October 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3C
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3B
- Let’s go to the beach and make an aperiodic tiling!
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3A
- Books to Recommend to Maths Students
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 39
- What on earth is the infinite least squares beanstalk?
- Carnival of Maths 244
- Aperiodical News Roundup – August/September 2025
- Breaking enneahedron news!
- #mathober 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 38
September 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 37
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 36
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 35
- Review: The Pseudorandom Ensemble at TMiP25
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 34
- Carnival of Maths 242
August 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 33
- Review: The Mathematician’s Library, by Thomas K. Briggs
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 32
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 31
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 30
- Carnival of Maths #241
- Aperiodical News Roundup – June & July 2025
July 2025
- Maths at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2F
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Another Roof
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2E
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2D
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Henry Segerman
- The Magic Theorem
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2C
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2B
June 2025
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Welch Labs
- When the moon hits your eye with a big piece of \( \pi \)…
- The Herschel enneahedron on Numberphile
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2A
- The mathematical essence of origami blue-and-white porcelain
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 29
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Boppana Math
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2025
- Carnival of Maths 240
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 28
- Podcasting About: Stats + Stories
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 27
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Jim Simons
May 2025
- Aperiodical News Roundup – April & May 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 26
- Topics I taught this year
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 25
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Nils Berglund
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 24
- Maths events at Cheltenham Science Festival 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 23
- Carnival of Maths 239
April 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 22
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 21
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 20
- “When numbers have meaning it makes it a lot easier for me” vs “I over think the given information and confuse myself”: do engineering students prefer maths questions in context?
- A bit of inspiration from #MathArtMarch
- Carnival of Maths 238
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1F
- Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2025
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1E
March 2025
- 5. Mathematics of the “I Ching”
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1D
- Double Maths First Thing, Issue 1C
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1B
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1A
- Carnival of Maths 237
- Aperiodical News Roundup – Jan & Feb 2025
February 2025
- Review: The Big Bang of Numbers by Manil Suri
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 19
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 18
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 17
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 16
- Carnival of Maths 236
- Fibonacci and a Feat of Memory
January 2025
- Humans Have Now Said Over 80,000 Digits of the New Mersenne Prime
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 15
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 14
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 13
- Aperiodical News Roundup – November & December 2024
- Double Maths First Thing, Issue 12
- Carnival of Maths 235
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 11
- Numerical coincidences for 2025
2024 88
December 2024
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2025
- A Puzzle about a Calculator
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 10
- Mathematical Objects: Universe of cake
- A New Sequence!
- Last-minute Mathematical Gifts
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue F
- Exciting new maths of 2024
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue E
- Review: Mapmatics by Paulina Rowińska
- Carnival of Maths 234
- Mathematical Objects: An object with Tai-Danae Bradley
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue D
November 2024
- Continued fractions
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue C
- Mathematical Objects: Borges’ Library of Babel
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue B
- Social media and mathematical chat
- Any way you cut it
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue A
- Mathematical Objects: Parallelepiped with Ayliean MacDonald
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 9
- Carnival of Maths 233
- Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2024
October 2024
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 8
- Mathematical Objects: An area the size of Wales
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 7
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 6
- Mathematical Objects: A ballot with Sam Hansen
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5
- Aperiodical News Roundup – September 2024
- Carnival of Maths 232
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 4
September 2024
- Mathematical Objects: Space-filling curves
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 3
- Philip Henslowe’s Card Trick
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 2
- Mathematical Objects: Low bridge sign with Adam Townsend
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 1
- Carnival of Maths 231
- Double Maths First Thing: Issue 0
August 2024
- Aperiodical News Roundup – August 2024
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Science Rapper
- Matrix multiplication doesn’t work like that
- Aperiodical News Roundup – June/July 2024
- Carnival of Maths 230
July 2024
- Row \( \sqrt{-1} \) of Pascal’s triangle
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, the final!
- Carnival of Maths 229
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Semi-final 2
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Semi-final 1
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Quarter-final 4
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Quarter-final 3
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Quarter-final 2
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Quarter-final 1
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 8
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 7
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 6
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 5
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 4
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 3
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 2
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2024, Round 1, Match 1
June 2024
- 4. Prime-number Pattern
- Announcing the Big Internet Math-Off 2024
- From Zero to Hero: a Euclidean proof
- Aperiodical News Roundup – May 2024
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2024
- Carnival of Maths 228
May 2024
April 2024
- Hidden in Plane Sight
- Podcasting about: It’s Not Just Numbers podcast
- 3. Graeco-Latin square
- Carnival of Mathematics 226
March 2024
- Podcasting about: Chalkboard Ultra podcast
- Finite Group: update and free livestream
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Stephen Wolfram on Twitch
- ChatGPT and history of maths misconceptions
- Carnival of Mathematics 225
February 2024
- Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2024
- Carnival of Mathematics 224
- Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2024
- Podcasting about: The Art of Mathematics podcast
January 2024
2023 78
December 2023
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2024
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Howie Hua
- Podcasting about: The Function Room
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: SparksMaths
- The Double Back puzzle is a nice mix of Towers of Hanoi and Solitaire
- Mathematical Gift Guide 2023
- Aperiodical News Roundup – November 2023
- Carnival of Mathematics 222
November 2023
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Sum and Product
- Primes, reversals and concatenations
- Mathematical Drawing Hacks
- 21X competition – results
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Keenan Crane
- Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2023
- Carnival of Mathematics 221
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Kat Does Maths
October 2023
- Finite Group: first free live stream
- \(-e^{i\pi}\) to Watch: Tibees
- 2. Four bugs
- Pythagoras and his theorem
- New Book – Short Cuts: Maths
- Mathematical Objects: Post-season 7 update
- Carnival of Mathematics 220
- Aperiodical News Roundup – September 2023
September 2023
- Kickstarter for algebraic blackjack game 21X launched
- Announcing The Finite Group
- MathsCity Leeds starting adults-only evening events
- $-e^{i\pi}$ to Watch: 3Blue1Brown
- Podcasting About: Maths + Cancer
- Carnival of Mathematics 219
- Mathematical Objects: Mathematics in Theory and Practice, edited by Warwick Sawyer
- Aperiodical News Roundup – August 2023
- Podcasting about: Digging For The Why podcast
August 2023
- Mathematical Objects: Scone with Sophie Maclean
- Mathematical modelling and sustainability
- Podcasting about: The NCETM Maths podcast
- 1. Patterns
- Mathematical Objects: Joukowsky aerofoil
- A visit to The Mathematikum in Giessen
- Review: Andrew Pontzen’s The Universe in a Box
- Daily LEGO maths prompts every day in August
- Bouton numbers: a new integer sequence
- Carnival of Mathematics 218
- Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2023
July 2023
- Mathematical Objects: Guitar with Sam Hartburn
- 27 tickets that guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery – but what prize?
- Interview: Kyle Evans on his 2023 Fringe show, Maths at the Museum
- Mathematical Objects: On-Sets
- Carnival of Mathematics 217
- Hexaflex yourself!
- We all need some space!
June 2023
- Aperiodical News Roundup – May & June 2023
- Mathematical Objects: A book with Sarah Hart
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2023
- Review: How to Expect the Unexpected, by Kit Yates
- Mathematical Objects: Battenberg cake
- Alternative methods of arithmetic
- Carnival of Mathematics 216
- Mathematical Objects: Aperiodic monotile with Chaim Goodman-Strauss
May 2023
- Now that’s what I call an aperiodic monotile!
- Review: The Spirit of Mathematics
- Aperiodical News Roundup – March, April & some of May 2023
- My conference experience: TMiP 2019
- Carnival of Mathematics 215
April 2023
March 2023
- Booking open for TMiP 2023
- An aperiodic monotile exists!
- Carnival of Mathematics 213
- Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2023
February 2023
- Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2023
- What Can Mathematicians Do? Recordings of ten talks by disabled mathematicians
- Carnival of Mathematics 212
January 2023
2022 75
December 2022
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2023
- How to fold and cut a Christmas star
- Interview: Coralie Colmez, author of The Irrational Diary of Clara Valentine
- Mathematical Stocking Fillers
- Aperiodical News Roundup – November 2022
November 2022
- Mathematical Advent Calendars Round-up
- Shoes and partition numbers: a developing mathematical mind wanders
- Twitter and Mathstodon
- Carnival of Mathematics 210
- What Can Mathematicians Do? A series of online talks about maths
- Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2022
October 2022
September 2022
- Carnival of Mathematics 208
- Katie and Sophie blogging at the HLF
- Aperiodical News Roundup – August 2022
August 2022
- Maths in the Spiderman: No Way Home Credits
- Integer sequence review: A101544
- What does DALL·E ‘think’ mathematics and a mathematician looks like?
- customdice: a new LaTeX package for drawing dice
- Sequences in the classroom
- Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2022
- Carnival of Mathematics 207
- Presenters wanted: a series of public maths talks by disabled mathematicians
July 2022
- Mathematical Activities for the Summer Holidays
- Mathematical Objects: Fingers with Ben Orlin
- Some Puzzles I Made For My Students
- Carnival of Mathematics 206
- Aperiodical News Roundup – June 2022
- Mathematical Objects: Quarto
June 2022
- What does craiyon/DALL·E mini ‘think’ mathematics and mathematicians look like?
- Mathematical Objects: Slinky
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2022
- Carnival of Mathematics 205
- Mathematical Objects: Nodal cubic with Angela Tabiri
May 2022
- Prime Run
- Didn’t Graduate Texts in Mathematics
- What we call mathematics
- Mathematical Objects: PageRank
- Aperiodical News Roundup – April 2022
- Mathematical Objects: A joke with Bec Hill
- Carnival of Mathematics 204
April 2022
- An incorrect model of the lottery, and when it doesn’t matter
- Podcasting about: Eureka! podcast
- The Aperiodical is 10!
- Mathematical Objects: Hairy ball
- Adapting my ‘programming for mathematicians’ module for teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Mathematical Objects: Superegg with Hannah Fry
- Review: Math Games With Bad Drawings
- Carnival of Mathematics 203
- Searching for the truth
- Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2022
March 2022
- John Conway and his fruitful fractions
- Now I’m calculating with constructive reals!
- British Science Week mathematicians poster competition
- MathsJam Leuven recap, February 2022
- Each Edge Peach Pear Plum
- Probability, statistics and Pascal’s other contributions
- MathsCity hosts freehand circle-drawing competition for π day
- Carnival of Mathematics 202
February 2022
- ICM 2022 will not be held in Russia – it’ll be virtual, and free
- Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2022
- Introducing hexboard – a LaTeX package for drawing games of Hex
- Carnival of Mathematics 201
- Numbers and number patterns in Pascal’s triangle
- Aperiodical News Roundup – January 2022
- A Mathematician’s Guide to Wordle
January 2022
- Podcasting About: Count Me In with Della and Deanna
- Podcasting About: Infinitely Irrational
- This island is big enough for the both of us
- Fibonacci, Lucas and the Golden Ratio in Pascal’s Triangle
- Mobile Numbers: Truchet Tiling
- Aperiodical News Roundup – December 2021
- Mathematicians on TV at Christmas, 2021
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2022
2021 56
December 2021
- The Mathematics of Spirograph
- Sequences in the triangle and the fourth dimension
- Mathematically Gifted
- Best Illusion of the Year Contest – Final
- Pascal’s Triangle and its Secrets – Introduction
- Aperiodical News Roundup – November 2021
- Carnival of Mathematics #200
November 2021
- Katie shows you how to make a kumihimo braid
- QEPrize’s Month of Making
- Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2021
- Carnival of Mathematics 199
October 2021
- MathsCity Leeds opening weekend
- Review: Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind
- Carnival of Mathematics 198
- Partially-automated individualised assessment of higher education mathematics
- Aperiodical News Roundup – September 2021
September 2021
August 2021
- Mathematical Objects: A sheep, at least one side of which is black
- Clopen Mic Night – new online maths variety show
- Mathematical Objects: Plate of biscuits with Alison Kiddle
- Carnival of Mathematics 196
- Aperiodical News Roundup – July 2021
July 2021
- Mathematical Objects: Spirograph
- The hunt for almost Pythagorean triples
- Mathematical Objects: Balancing bird with Alom Shaha
- A lullaby sequence
- WhyStartAt.xyz: a collection of ambiguities, inconsistencies and unpleasant conventions in notation
- Carnival of Maths 195
- Carnival of Maths 194
- Aperiodical News Roundup – June 2021
- Mathematical Objects: UUID 0412a969-5b27-4c28-9662-85ef2c201e0c
June 2021
- Mathematical Objects: Auctioneer’s Hammer with Tim Harford
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2021
- Cheltenham Science Festival 2021 preview
- Your laptop knows more than Euler
- Mathematical Objects: Dobble
- Aperiodical News Roundup – May 2021
May 2021
April 2021
- Aperiodical News Roundup – April 2021
- My robot draws TeX
- Carnival of Mathematics 192
- Aperiodical News Roundup – March 2021
March 2021
- Geometry Juniors, by Ed Southall
- Some different ways of multiplying numbers, vectors and matrices
- Aperiodical News Roundup – February 2021
- Carnival of Maths 191
February 2021
January 2021
2020 137
December 2020
- James Grime answers your Shakuntala Devi questions
- Mathematical Objects: Christmas crackers
- Podcasting about – Women in Math: The Limit Does Not Exist
- Mobile Numbers: Hitomezashi Stitching
- The extraordinary Cardano family
- Mathematical Objects: Enigma machine with Tom Briggs
- Podcasting about: New Books in Mathematics
- Maths books for children
- Aperiodical’s Mathematical Seasonal Gift Guide, 2020
- Carnival of Maths 188
- Aperiodical News Roundup – November 2020
- Alex Bellos – The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book
November 2020
- Mathematical Objects: Solids of constant width
- Podcasting about: Mathematically Uncensored podcast
- Review: Why Study Mathematics, by Vicky Neale
- Mathematical Objects: Ball of wool with Pat Ashforth
- Podcasting About: Puzzling Maths
- Doughnuts in the Sand
- Mathematical Objects podcast now on YouTube
- Spooky 007 date coincidence
- Carnival of Maths 187
- Fractal Bunting Competition – results
- Aperiodical News Roundup – October 2020
October 2020
- Mathematical Objects: Lottery machine
- 24-hour Maths Magic Show next weekend
- Mathematical Objects: Klein bottle with Matthew Scroggs
- Carnival of Mathematics 186
- Mathematical Objects: A hat
- Upcoming Mathematical Events/Competitions in October 2020
September 2020
- Aperiodical News Round-up – September 2020
- Mobile Numbers: Cellular Automaton
- Podcasting About: Plus’ Maths on the Move podcast
- Aperiodical Design Competition: Fractal Bunting
- Sock, Horror indeed
- Mathematical Objects: Hundred square with Susan Okereke
- Podcasting About: A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail
- PuzzleBomb is a thing again!
- Updates to Mathigon mobile apps
- Carnival of Maths 185
- Not Mentioned on The Aperiodical, Summer 2020
- The enormous difficulty of telling the truth about escalators with statistics
August 2020
- Fi-Bee-onacci
- The permutation clock
- Aperiodical Round Up 11: more than you could ever need, want or be able to know
- Mathematical Objects: Twenty Pence coin
- Podcasting about: Mathematical Objects
- Resources for learning probability and statistics
- Mathematical Objects: A vehicle with Christopher Danielson
- Podcasting about: Maths Appeal podcast
- Carnival of Maths 184
July 2020
- Mathematical Objects: Möbius band
- Podcasting about: A Problem Squared
- nimsticks: LaTeX package for drawing Nim sticks and games
- 2020 Christopher Zeeman Medal awarded to Matt Parker
- π-ku Poetry Competition – Results
- Mathematical Objects: Mandala with Hana Ayoob
- Podcasting about: Relatively Prime
- From the mailbag – circles of circles
- Carnival of Maths 183
- Mathematical Objects: Acoustic mirrors with James Grime
- Mathematical Things To Do
- Podcasting about: The Joy of x podcast
June 2020
- Prime Climb colouring in with LuaTeX
- Coding Stories: Programming Polygons
- Poetry competition: π-ku
- Mathematical Objects: Number block cubes
- Podcasting about: Opinionated History of Mathematics podcast
- Conway’s Circle Theorem: a proof, this time with words
- Review: Immersive Linear Algebra
- Resources for Anti-Racism and Social Justice in the Mathematical Sciences
- Carnival of Maths 182
- Mathematical Objects: Rubik’s Cube
- Podcasting about: Wrong But Useful podcast
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 26
May 2020
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 25
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 24
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 23
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 22
- Help for those delivering university mathematics online
- Mathematical Objects: D&D Dice
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 21
- Podcasting about: Numberphile Podcast
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 20
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 19
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 18
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 17
- Mathematical Objects: Season 3 ‘trailer’
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 16
- Mathematical play with young children
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 15
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 14
- Podcasting about: Calculated Podcast
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 13
- Streaming of Maryam Mirzakhani film free until 12th May
- Carnival of Maths 181
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 12
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 11
April 2020
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 10
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 9
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 8
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 7
- Podcasting about: Odds and Evenings Podcast
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 6
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 5
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 4
- Math Seminars: a big list of online mathematics talks
- The Big Lockdown Math-Off, Match 3
- The Big Lockdown Math-Off, Match 2
- John Conway has died
- The Big Lock-Down Math-Off, Match 1
- Podcasting about: Math Mutation podcast
- Mochizuki ABC Proof to be Published
- Carnival of Maths 180
March 2020
- Announcing the Big Lockdown Math-Off
- Podcasting about: My Favorite Theorem Podcast
- COVID-19: moving my maths lecturing online, week 1
- Colourful Mathematics – A Review of Alex Berke’s Book ‘Beautiful Symmetries’
- Abel Prize 2020
- Carnival of Mathematics #179
- Podcasting about: Risky Talk Podcast
- Richard K. Guy (1916-2020)
- IWD 2020: Books about Maths by Women
- Where could you (or your rich pal) give everyone $1 million?
February 2020
- Mathematical Objects: Robot caterpillar
- Podcasting about: Isaac Newton Institute Podcast
- Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)
- Ada Lovelace Day is fundraising
- The smallest unique Cheshire Cat
- SAMDOB – mess up the order of operations
- Mathematics is Everywhere worldwide video – call for contributions
- A paper version of the Seven Triples puzzle
- Mathematical Objects: Pencil
- Carnival of Maths 178
January 2020
2019 122
December 2019
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2020
- Mathematical Objects: Ox Blocks
- Mathematical Objects: Correntator with Christian Lawson-Perfect
November 2019
- #tmwyk: mathematical play and conversations with my kid
- That which we call an identity
- Mathematical Objects: Pseudorhombicuboctahedron
- Mathematical Objects: A pair of skipping ropes
- My adventures in 3D printing: Seven Triples puzzle
- My adventures in 3D printing: Prime number sieve
- Review: Maths on the Back of an Envelope, by Rob Eastaway
- My adventures in 3D printing: Golomb ruler
- My adventures in 3D printing: Wallis’ Sheldonian theatre roof
- My adventures in 3D printing: Spherical pseudo-cuboctahedron
- My adventures in 3D printing: Write Angles Cube
- Carnival of Maths 175
October 2019
- Small Sets of Arc-Sided Tiles
- Review: The Maths of Life and Death, by Kit Yates
- The Maths of Life and Death – The God Equation
- High definition
- MathsJam’s “Back of an Envelope” Fermi Challenge
- Carnival of Mathematics 174
- International Day of Mathematics
- Wikithon for diversity in mathematics
September 2019
- Carnival of Maths 173
- 42 is the answer to the question “what is (-80538738812075974)³ + 80435758145817515³ + 12602123297335631³?”
- Simon Singh wants someone to help with Top Top Set
- Cédric Villani is running for mayor of Paris
- Reimagining Byrne’s Euclid
- TeXnique: a LaTeX typesetting game
August 2019
- Karen EDGE Fellowship Program
- Summer Maths Puzzles from the Isaac Newton Institute
- Tessellating Tricurves
- FryDay News Bulletin
- Carnival of Maths 172
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019: the end!
July 2019
- The Big Internet Math-Off: The final – Sameer Shah vs Sophie Carr
- The Big Internet Math-Off Semi-final 2: Sophie Carr vs Becky Warren
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019 Semi-final 1: Lucy Rycroft-Smith vs Sameer Shah
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 4 – Colin Beveridge vs Becky Warren
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 3 – Vicky Neale vs Sophie Carr
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 2 – Marianne and Rachel vs Jorge Nuno Silva
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 1 – Alex Corner vs Grant Sanderson
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 4 – Colin Beveridge vs Anna Haensch
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 3 – Vicky Neale vs Sunil Singh
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 2 – Marianne and Rachel vs Sameer Shah
- Maths at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2019
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 1 – Alex Corner vs Alaric Stephen
- Alan Turing is the face of the new £50 note
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 4 – Kyle D Evans vs Anna Haensch
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 3 – Jim Propp vs Sunil Singh
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 2 – Vincent Pantaloni vs Sameer Shah
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 1 – Lucy Rycroft-Smith vs Alaric Stephen
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 4 – Kyle D Evans vs Becky Warren
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 3 – Jim Propp vs Sophie Carr
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 2 – Vincent Pantaloni vs Jorge Nuno Silva
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 1 – Lucy Rycroft-Smith vs Grant Sanderson
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 4 – Becky Warren vs Anna Haensch
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 3 – Sophie Carr vs Sunil Singh
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 2 – Jorge Nuno Silva vs Sameer Shah
- Mathematical Objects: Thermometer
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 1 – Grant Sanderson vs Alaric Stephen
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 4 – Colin Beveridge vs Kyle D Evans
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 3 – Vicky Neale vs Jim Propp
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 2 – Marianne & Rachel vs Vincent Pantaloni
- Carnival of Mathematics 171
- The Big Internet Math-Off 2019, Group 1 – Alex Corner vs Lucy Rycroft-Smith
June 2019
- Hedetniemi’s Conjecture in graph theory disproved
- Maths World UK has almost reached its funding target
- Mathematical Objects: Noughts and Crosses (Tic Tac Toe) board
- Announcing the Big Internet Math-Off 2019
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2019
- Carnival of Mathematics 170
- Creating the universe: an interactive mathematical art project
- Mathematical Objects: Tangerine
- View D-Day via real-time tweets of Enigma intercepts from Bletchley Park
May 2019
- Mathematical Objects: Pile of matchsticks
- Mathigon
- Mathematical Objects: Tantrix Tiles, Beaded Necklaces and Juggling Balls with Alex Corner
- Carnival of Mathematics 169
- Talking Maths in Public
April 2019
- IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics now has a newsletter
- Mathematical Objects: Stick of Chalk
- New Fellows of the Royal Society announced
- Maths at the Cheltenham Science Festival
- Population modelling in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Elwyn Berlekamp has left us
- Mathematical Objects: Pythagoras T-shirt
- Mathematical Sign Language – Interview with Dr Jess Boland
- Matt Parker does BBC GCSE maths revision videos
- Carnival of Mathematics 168
- Scientists call for an end to statistical significance
March 2019
- Review: How To Fall Slower Than Gravity, by Paul J Nahin
- Mathematical Objects: Towers of Hanoi
- Review: Humble Pi, by Matt Parker
- realhats: Writing a $\LaTeX$ Package
- History of maths competitions for secondary school students and undergraduates
- Recent mathematical awards
- Abel Prize 2019 goes to Karen Uhlenbeck
- π calculated to 31 trillion digits
- Buzz in when you think you know the answer
- I’m streaming digits of π for π day
- 33 can be written as the sum of three cubes
- I’ve made some maths t-shirts, and you can buy them
- Mathematical Objects: Introduction
- Many-to-many Shape Sorter
- Google Doodle celebrates Olga Ladyzhenskaya
- Carnival of Mathematics 167
- Talking to my three-year-old about my undergraduate mathematics teaching
February 2019
- Ning Nang Nong Latin square
- Doodling for π day
- Making Tricurves
- Nine months of HLF blogging
- Carnival of Mathematics 166
- Pringle stack mathematics
- One Mathematically Gifted and Black person every day this Black History Month
- I’ve made myself a calculator
January 2019
2018 148
December 2018
- Not Mentioned on The Aperiodical, 2018
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2019
- Aperiodvent, Day 24: The Equation for a Merry Xmas
- Aperiodvent, Day 23: Cellular Automata and Snowflakes
- Aperiodvent, Day 22: The Royal Statistical Society Christmas Quiz
- Aperiodvent, Day 21: Mathematical Christmas Cracker Jokes
- Aperiodvent, Day 20: Borromean Baubles by Woolly Thoughts
- Number Day 2019: maths-inspired fundraising for NSPCC
- Steckles on QI!
- Aperiodvent, Day 19: James Grime’s Maths of Christmas
- Statistics of the year 2018
- Finding an equation that has the same solution when rotated
- Aperiodvent, Day 18: Polyomino-ho-ho
- Byrne’s Euclid recreated for the web
- Aperiodvent, Day 17: Christmas Stockings in Pascal’s Triangle
- Aperiodvent, Day 16: Relatively Prime Christmas Special
- Aperiodvent, Day 15: Mathematical Present Wrapping video
- Aperiodvent, Day 14: Dodecahedron star lantern
- Aperiodvent, Day 13: Fold-and-Cut Christmas Tree
- Registration for 2019 Alan Turing Cryptography Competition and MathsBombe is open
- Aperiodvent, Day 12: Fractal Christmas Trees
- Christmas images using parabolic curves and TikZ
- Aperiodvent, Day 11: MathsJam Shout
- Carnival of Mathematics 164
- Aperiodvent, Day 10: Dimensional Analysis and Turkeys
- Aperiodvent, Day 9: The Twelve Days of Christmas activity
- Aperiodvent, Day 8: The Problems With Secret Santa
- Aperiodvent, Day 7: Parabolic Sewing
- Aperiodvent, Day 6: Hexagonal Snowflakes
- Aperiodvent, Day 5: Dodecorations
- LaTeX/TikZ to draw a star graph $K_{1,n}$
- Aperiodvent, Day 4: Möbius Paper Chains
- Aperiodvent Day 3: Mince Pi Pendulum
- The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts
- Aperiodvent Day 2: Sprouts
- Aperiodvent Day 1: Other Mathematical Advent Calendars
- Aperiodvent 2018 – a month of mathematical things
November 2018
- Big MathsJam Highlights, 2018
- Here are the mathematicians you nominated to go on the new £50 note
- Rachel Riley admits she can’t do maths (but not really)
- Euler in maths and engineering
- Carnival of Mathematics 161
- Zeckendorf cup arithmetic
- Baking Babylonian cuneiform tablets in gingerbread
- Kilogram definition to be changed to be based on Planck’s constant
- #Noethember continues
- Young Researcher applications open for HLF 2019
- Carnival of Mathematics 163
- Nominate a mathematician for the new £50 note
October 2018
- Phantom Tiling
- #Noethember: daily Emmy doodling starts on Thursday
- Review: You Can’t Polish a Nerd, Floppy Disk #211 (Festival of the Spoken Nerd)
- HLF Blogs: Quotable Women in Mathematics
- #Noethember: illustrating a life
- The IMU wants to make π Day the International Day of Mathematics
- Alex Bellos’ The Supercalculators on BBC R4
- HLF Blogs: The numbers behind the young researchers – 2018
- Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Maths on BBC Four
- HLF Blogs: Equations of Women in Mathematics
- Carnival of Mathematics 162
- This matrix joke is only barely worth your time
September 2018
- Handing over @mathshistory
- A puzzle for another day
- HLF Blogs: Why you’re already an algebraic geometer
- Atiyah Riemann Hypothesis proof: final thoughts
- HLF Blogs: Leslie Lamport Thinks Your Code Is Bad
- Curvahedra Geometry
- Atiyah-Riemann Proof: banter summary
- HLF Blogs: What is the Riemann Hypothesis?
- Michael Atiyah claims proof of Riemann Hypothesis
- LaTeX for typesetting a multi-pile Nim game
- Polyhedra Viewer – meet Nat Alison
- Hannah Fry’s Hello World is Radio 4 Book of the Week
- Combining Tricurves
- Maths at the British Science Festival 2018
August 2018
- The Joy Of Winning documentary on BBC2
- International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 – St Petersburg
- Carnival of Mathematics 160
- 2018 Christopher Zeeman Medal awarded to Hannah Fry
- Caucher Birkar becomes first person ever to receive the Fields Medal twice
- The Big Internet Math-Off – The end
- Royal Society Science Book Prize shortlist announced
- Fields Medal theft
- 2018 Fields Medal Winners Announced
July 2018
- Bending the Law of Sines
- The Big Internet Math-Off – The Final! Nira Chamberlain v Matt Parker
- The Big Internet Math-Off: Cheering from the sidelines
- The Mathematical Beauty of the Game SET
- The Big Internet Math-Off semi-final 2 – Edmund Harriss v Matt Parker
- The Big Internet Math-Off Semi-Final 1 – Nira Chamberlain v Zoe Griffiths
- Second place in a single-elimination tournament
- The Big Internet Math-Off round 2 – Matt Parker v Jo Morgan
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 2 – Evelyn Lamb v Zoe Griffiths
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 2 – Paul Taylor v Edmund Harriss
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 2 – Nira Chamberlain v Alison Kiddle
- Alexander Bogomolny, creator of Cut the Knot, has died.
- Are there More or Less stars than grains of beach sand?
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 1 – Jo Morgan v Tony Mann
- Carnival of Mathematics 159
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 1 – James Propp v Zoe Griffiths
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 1 – Matt Parker v Matthew Scroggs
- 5th July is LGBT STEM Day
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 1 – Tiago Hirth v Evelyn Lamb
- MathsJam Gathering: A Review
- The Big Internet Math-Off Round 1 – Edmund Harriss v Colin Wright
- The Big Internet Math-Off, Round 1 – Peter Rowlett v Alison Kiddle
- The Big Internet Math-Off, Round 1 – Samuel Hansen v Paul Taylor
- The Big Internet Math-Off, Round 1 – James Tanton v Nira Chamberlain
June 2018
- Announcing the Big Internet Math-Off
- A chat with the creator of Number Drop
- My cat isn’t psychic – but your pet could be!
- Seeing Theory explains basic stats concepts with whizzy graphics
- Cryptogram competition – results and solution
- Carnival of Mathematics 158
- Competition: Cryptogram Puzzle
May 2018
- Carnival of Mathematics 157
- How to join in with our distributed Wiki edit day
- I’ve written some stuff for the HLF Spektrum blog
- The incredible palindromic hat-trick
April 2018
- The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5
- Review – A Mind At Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
- Carnival of Mathematics 156
- πkm run challenge – completed
- Wikiquote edit-a-thon – Saturday, May 12th, 2018
March 2018
- πkm running challenge: 21-day round up
- Hannah Fry’s ‘Contagion’ programme broadcast tonight
- Abel Prize 2018
- Exactly how bad is the 13 times table?
- The OEIS now contains 300,000 integer sequences
- Proof by sedition
- LMS Meeting in honour of Maryam Mirzakhani
- Faces of Women in Mathematics
- πkm Running Challenge: 7-day update
- Carnival of Mathematics 155
- Prime Time
February 2018
- Stanisław Ulam biopic
- I’m going to run πkm every day in March
- Taming the AGM
- Approaching Fermi problems with the approximate geometric mean
- Ten years and eight days
- Carnival of Mathematics 154
- Gerrymandering Gives Mathematics’s Moon a Day in the Sun
- Review: Closing the Gap, by Vicky Neale
January 2018
2017 123
December 2017
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2018
- Review: Geometry Snacks, by Ed Southall and Vincent Pantaloni
- Donald Knuth’s 2017 Christmas lecture: “A Conjecture That Had To Be True”
- A winning competition
- “Pariah Moonshine” Part III: Pariah Groups, Prime Factorizations, and Points on Elliptic Curves
- Review: The Maths Behind… by Colin Beveridge
- Carnival of Mathematics 152
- AMS Communication Awards
- 2018 Christopher Zeeman Medal nominations open
- The Calculus Story – Interview with author David Acheson
November 2017
- Alan Turing Cryptography Competitions open as of 1st December
- When numbers aren’t neutral: the hidden politics of budget calculators
- Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Just for Graphs DVD
- “Pariah Moonshine” Part II: For Whom the Moon Shines
- The competition I entered into the first MathsJam Competition Competition
- Not Mentioned on The Aperiodical, November 2017
- Applications are open for the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
- New maths board game Mind Your Numbers
- Braid groups win 2017 Dance Your PhD contest
- Carnival of Mathematics 151
October 2017
- Black Mathematician Month: Closing Ceremony
- Vi Hart is crowdfunding
- HLF Blogs: Is mathematics idealistic or realistic?
- Ditching the fifth axiom (video)
- “Pariah Moonshine” Part I: The Happy Family and the Pariah Groups
- Footballs on road signs: an international overview
- @standupmaths’ petition has had a response from the government
- Stirling’s numbers in a nutshell
- A new aspect of mathematics
- Carnival of Mathematics 150
- Binary, with Anne-Marie Imafidon (video)
- Holo-Math sounds pretty wild
- Mathematical modelling of Facebook use (video)
- Circular reasoning on Catalan numbers
- Save the Further Maths Support Programme
- Measuring π with a pendulum
- HLF Blogs: Efim Zelmanov’s Desert Island Maths
- Stupid-looking maths question does the rounds, isn’t stupid
- Ritangle student maths competition open now
- The Sound of Proof
- 2017 London Mathematical Society Popular Lectures now online
- Petition to update UK traffic signs to use a geometrically plausible football
- Progress on billiard table problem
- Blogs from this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum
- Perplex – OU & UKMT puzzle app
- maths 4 maryams
- MathType and WIRIS Join Forces
- October is Black Mathematician Month!
- RSS Stat of the Year
- HLF Blogs – Mathematical Theories of Communication
- Vladimir Voevodsky and Monty Hall have died
September 2017
- HLF Blogs – Michael Atiyah’s Favourite Manifold
- HLF Blogs – The numbers behind the young researchers
- HLF Blogs – Fractals for dinner
- HLF Blogs – Leslie Lamport thinks your proofs are bad
- HLF Blogs – A Mathematical Easter Egg
- HLF Blogs – Math ⇔ Art: the Gosper curve
- Pandemic – the app
- HLF Blogs – Approximate Gaussian Elimination
- HLF Blogs – Vint Cerf’s press conference: in quotes
- HLF Blogs – Math ⇔ Art: what is a rotogon?
- Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2017
- New podcast takes a look at Maths at the Movies
- Carnival of Mathematics 149
- Scenes at a maths conference
- 919444¹⁰⁴⁸⁵⁷⁶ + 1 is prime
August 2017
- Maths at the British Science Festival
- London Mathematical Society launches Mathematical Sciences Directory
- New YouTube videos by me and James Grime
- P might not be NP, reckons Norbert Blum
- Review: Factris
- Landon Clay, founder of the Clay Mathematics Institute, has died
- Carnival of Mathematics 148
- Maths at the Edinburgh Fringe
July 2017
- News of some significance
- You can finally use TeX for maths in Microsoft Office… just about
- Review: ‘Power-Up: Unlocking the Hidden Mathematics in Video Games’ by Matthew Lane
- ShareLaTeX and Overleaf are merging
- My Favorite Theorem podcast launched
- Subscript: We’re trying out a new shorter post format
- Algebraic Combinatorics ditches Springer
- Fun with microbiology: Virus, the Beauty of the Beast
- 2017 LMS prize winners announced
- Laws of mathematics not as immutable as we thought, in Australia
- Carnival of Mathematics 147
June 2017
- Square wheels in an Italian maths exam
- The curious mathmo talks to David Roberts
- Patterns and code to make your own cellular automaton scarves now online
- Shaw Prize 2017 awarded to two algebraic geometers
- 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime
- Carnival of Mathematics 146
May 2017
- Everyone’s A Mathematician – Astronauts
- Right answer for the wrong reason: cellular automaton on the new Cambridge North station
- We want your best #proofinatoot on mathstodon.xyz
- Alexandre Grothendieck’s notes archive to be released online
- Carnival of Mathematics 145
April 2017
- Review: The Mathematics of Secrets by Joshua Holden
- Video: How to draw an egg
- Timetabling choreography with maths
- Carnival of Mathematics 144
March 2017
- Video: New mathematical card trick
- A day in the life of a maths e-learning officer
- Cutting an oval pizza – video
- Carnival of Mathematics 143
- Follow Women Friday: International Women’s Day 2017
- Review: Hidden Figures
- “I own more maths books by Martin Gardner than by women, is that bad?”
- Happy Birthday to me
- Not a pizza pie chart
February 2017
- The 12th Polymath project has started: resolve Rota’s basis conjecture
- Watch this bold decision-maker score 100 at the “is this prime?” game
- George Boole statue to be erected in Lincoln
- Hans Rosling and Raymond Smullyan have died
- Carnival of Mathematics 142
January 2017
- Math Teachers at Play #104
- Dani’s OEIS adventures: triangular square numbers
- Mobile Numbers: Products of Twin Primes
- Graph Isomorphism panto: oh no it isn’t; oh yes it is!
- Mathematical genius: extrapolate from your own experience?
- Carnival of Mathematics 141
- Particularly mathematical New Year Honours 2017
- Call for submissions for Math Teachers at Play blog carnival
- Awards round-up
2016 118
December 2016
- Not Mentioned on The Aperiodical, 2016
- Relatively Prime is back!
- Mobile Numbers: Multiples of nine
- Puzzlebomb – December 2016
- Association for Women in Maths essay contest
- CP’s solid used as the basis of a puzzle
- MathsBombe and Alan Turing Cryptography Competitions 2017 – registration open
- The maths of the Grime Cube
- “Mathematics: The Winton Gallery” opens at Science Museum
- Paper about student use of a learning space in mathematics
- Carnival of Mathematics 140
- Mathematical advent calendar 2016 roundup
November 2016
- Maths Journals for an engaged Sixth Former
- Rubik’s cube manufacturer loses trademark battle
- Education bits: new PBS maths series, National Numeracy game, etc.
- A more equitable statement of the jealous husbands puzzle
- Apéryodical: Mini-podcast with Ben Sparks and James Grime
- Apéryodical: Scratch and sniff ζ plot
- Apéryodical: Roger Apéry’s Mathematical Story
- Apéryodical takeover: It’s Roger Apéry’s 100th birthday!
- Not Mentioned on the Aperiodical, 10th November 2016
- Principia Reissue Kickstarter
- Puzzlebomb – November 2016
- Curvahedra is a construction system for arty mathsy structures
October 2016
- The magic number 25641
- Carnival of Mathematics 139
- “π – It’s Complicated” – a talk I gave on Pi Day 2016 at Ustinov College Café Scientifique
- Maths at the Manchester Science Festival 2016
- Puzzlebomb – October 2016
- Best way to explain topology: now officially ‘using baked goods’
- The world’s smallest Rubik’s cube is 5.6mm wide and absolutely adorable
September 2016
- Happy 100th birthday, Richard K Guy!
- New Twin Primes found
- Carnival of Mathematics 138
- The University of Leicester is going to sack its whole maths department (and rehire some of them)
- Puzzlebomb – September 2016
- Photomath can read my writing
- Do you use mixed fractions?
August 2016
- Maths at the British Science Festival 2016
- Carnival of Mathematics 137
- Puzzlebomb – August 2016
- Integer Sequence Reviews: A075771, A032799, A002717
July 2016
June 2016
- Binary/Nail Varnish Puzzle – solution
- New MathJax accessibility extensions provide collapsible expressions and maths-to-speech
- Puzzlebomb – June 2016
- Carnival of Mathematics 135
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2016
- Just how big is a big proof?
- Armadillo Vault held together only by friction
May 2016
- “How can you do coursework for maths?” What I marked this year
- CLP reads “Non-sexist solution to the ménage problem”
- There was a “beauty of maths” garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. Yeah, sure, why not
- This video about the proof of the Kelmans-Seymour conjecture is adorable
- Maths and stats on Radio 1!
- A new home for Interesting Esoterica
- Not mentioned on The Aperiodical this month, May 2016
- Solomon Golomb (1932-2016)
- Carnival of Mathematics 134
- The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths
- Maths Object: Nobbly Wobbly
- Katie’s Binary Nails Tutorial – and a puzzle
- Are you sure 51 isn’t prime? – Analysing the results of the “Is this prime?” game
- Puzzlebomb – May 2016
April 2016
- Ever been involved in publishing research? Answer this survey of mathematical publishing priorities
- Kickstart the Mandelmap poster: a vintage style map of the Mandelbrot set
- Steinberg’s conjecture is false
- Approximate a ratio by folding a piece of paper
- Carnival of Mathematics 133
- Mind Games: 6 Nimmt!
- Maths Object: Correntator
- Erdős-Bacon: previously unknown collaboration
- Puzzlebomb – April 2016
March 2016
- Not mentioned on The Aperiodical, March 2016
- EE = maths × sums²
- Carnival of Mathematics 132
- GCHQ has declassified James Ellis’s papers on public key cryptography
- Mathematical awards season round-up
- Ohioans measure a really big π
- Rodents of Unusual Size? I don’t think they exist
- Improbable John Conway/Pizza Hut collaboration for π day
- Relatively Prime Season 3 Kickstarter
- I bought isthisprime.com
- The arXiv overlay journal Discrete Analysis has launched
- Maths Objects: polyhedra
- The Man Who Knew Infinity trailer
- Puzzlebomb – March 2016
February 2016
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 8: Diegetic Plots, Chapter 2
- Maths Object: “Groups”, by Georges Papy
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 7: $f(\theta) = 1 – \theta$
- Christopher Zeeman has died
- We’ve done a bit of Spring cleaning
- Carnival of Mathematics #131
- MathsJam talks now online
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 6: Principia Metropolica
- Wherein CLP “improves” Chinese New Year
- Open Season: Pancake Flipping
- GCHQ Christmas puzzles winners and solutions announced
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 5: Other Duties As Assigned
- Puzzlebomb – February 2016
January 2016
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 4: Diegetic Plots, Chapter 1
- Review: Pythagoria
- Learning to play Go: computer edition
- Learning to play Go
- The Aperiodical’s Actual Snowflake Competition – Results
- New Mersenne prime discovered, and promptly printed out
- Our top 10 posts from 2015
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 3: Mathematistan
- Messiaen’s “Quartet for the end of time”, animated by Simon Russell and Marcus du Sautoy
- Books a 14-year-old who’s good at maths might enjoy
- Carnival of Mathematics 130
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 2: Your Daily Recommended Math[s]
- Puzzlebomb – January 2016
- MathsBombe Competition
- Relatively Prime Recap: Season 2, Episode 1: The Lexicon
- PhD proposal in maths/engineering higher education
2015 179
December 2015
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2016
- The 12 Days of Christmas and Pascal’s Triangle
- Aperiodvent, Day 24: Tree Stump Dodecahedron
- Aperiodvent, Day 23: The Robin-Lagarias Theorem
- Aperiodvent, Day 22: Gingerbreadman map cookies
- Aperiodvent, Day 21: Sierpinski Triangles
- Aperiodvent, Day 20: a snowflake sequence
- Aperiodvent, Day 19: Peg & Cat – Problem Solved
- The Aperiodical’s Actually Hexagonal Snowflake Competition 2015
- Aperiodvent, Day 18: Numbers Aplenty
- Carnival of Mathematics 129
- Aperiodvent, Day 17: Old Pappus’ Book of Mathematical Calligraphy
- Aperiodvent, Day 16: A tessellating bird
- Video: Mathematical Christmas Present Wrapping
- Christmas Symme-tree
- Aperiodvent, Day 15: Mathematiques Modernes – A + B = C
- Aperiodvent, Day 14: Which Springer-Verlag graduate text in mathematics are you?
- Aperiodvent, Day 13: The Friendship Theorem
- Aperiodvent, Day 12: ASCII fractal drawing
- Aperiodvent, Day 11: Lychrel numbers
- Puzzlebomb – December 2015
- Happy 200th Birthday, Ada Lovelace!
- Aperiodvent, Day 10: The Basel Problem
- Aperiodvent, Day 9: Platonic solid decorations
- Aperiodvent, Day 8: House of Graphs
- Aperiodvent, Day 7: Counterexamples
- Aperiodvent, Day 6: The Panarboreal Formula
- Aperiodvent, Day 5: The music of nomography
- Aperiodvent, Day 4: Hyperbolic Non-Euclidean World and Figure-8 Knot
- Aperiodvent, Day 3: Origami decorations from sonobe units
- Aperiodvent, Day 2: The Euclid-Euler Theorem
- Aperiodvent, Day 1: The first 10,000 digits of π dialled on a rotary phone
- The Aperiodvent Calendar, 2015
November 2015
- What I’ve done this year
- plotly.js is now open source
- Where do old issues of MSOR Connections live online these days?
- Ask Clever Hans a question
- Spoof My Proof
- László Babai reckons he can decide if two graphs are isomorphic in quasipolynomial time
- Carnival of Mathematics 128
- Riemann Hypothesis not proved, part 2
- Puzzlebomb – November 2015
- AMS online opportunities
- Riemann Hypothesis not proved
- Make your own bauble with icosahedral symmetry with Shapeways
- Cheng vs Colbert
October 2015
- Being a Professional Mathematician — now available as a podcast
- Mathematical app roundup, October 2015
- Carnival of Mathematics 127
- Review: Unique polyhedral dice from Maths Gear
- Maths events at the Manchester Science Festival
- Intersections by Anila Quayyum Agha
- Mathematical myths, legends and inaccuracies: some examples
- Wherein CP does that exam problem with the crocodile
- Puzzlebomb – October 2015
- Tessellation Art by Chris Watson
- Guest post: Sequence Numbers
- What I did on my summer holidays
September 2015
- Tiling a finite plane
- Review: Snowflake Seashell Star, by Alex Bellos & Edmund Harriss
- Carnival of Mathematics 126
- Not mentioned on The Aperiodical this week, 18th September 2015
- Terence Tao has solved the Erdős discrepancy problem!
- Breakthrough Junior Challenge prize for the best 10-minute explanation of a maths topic
- New issue of MSOR Connections, I’m an editor
- Timothy Gowers has launched a new arXiv overlay journal
- Here’s a dude solving a Rubik’s cube in freefall
- Vote for MathML support in Microsoft Edge
- LMS Local Heroes
- Analytical Engine, Lovelace & Babbage LEGO Ideas proposal needs support
- Puzzlebomb – September 2015
- Maths helps maths graduates get professional jobs
August 2015
- New York Times puzzle is pure game theory
- New pentagonal tiling discovered
- Given any Delta, there exists Epsilon
- Carnival of Mathematics 125
- #realfaceofmath
- Puzzlebomb – August 2015
July 2015
- Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, July 2015
- Hypernom
- Naked Scientists on the Clay Millennium Prize Problems, f. Katie Steckles
- Take the 30 second arithmetic challenge
- Carnival of Mathematics 124
- MacTutor History of Mathematics website creators honoured by LMS
- GIFsmos
- Review: Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, by Siobhan Roberts
- MathML 3.0 is now an ISO standard
- Puzzlebomb – July 2015
- How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards?
June 2015
- Review: Cakes, Custard and Category Theory by Eugenia Cheng
- Mathematical Scarves Kickstarter
- The Amazing World of MC Escher
- Registration for the 2015 MathsJam conference is now open
- Review: The Illustrated Lilavati, by Somdip Datta
- UK National Lottery: now 21% more balls (rounded up)
- Carnival of Mathematics 123
- Puzzlebomb – June 2015
- London MathsJam Recap, May 2015
- First Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge goes to Etienne Ghys
- 3Blue1Brown makes really clear videos about maths
- Math Stack: a really pretty deck of cards with maths on
- Dr. Isomorpheus is a crazy mathematician
- I’ve made my own numbers-in-a-grid game
- Programming to investigate Quarto
May 2015
- Maths at the Cheltenham Science Festival, 2015
- The Other Half – Parable of the Polygons
- Fresh Turing preprints!
- The Racial Dot Map
- RIP John Nash
- Katie Steckles is Greenwich University ‘Mathematician in Residence’
- Carnival of Mathematics 122
- Integral House is for sale!
- The Open Logic Project – an open-source, collaborative logic textbook
- Physics with hidden calculus
- Puzzlebomb – May 2015
- The Journal of K-Theory is dead
April 2015
- Review: CALX, a calculator for iPhone
- The Aperiodical is 3
- Mathical books for kids award winners announced
- #thatlogicproblem round-up
- Carnival of Mathematics 121
- Puzzlebomb – April 2015
- Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15
March 2015
- Eight Easy Pieces (you can touch but don’t look)
- Power lines follow power laws, says somebody
- Bread & Kisses
- Zeeman Archive
- Apiological: mathematical speculations about bees (Part 3: Travelling Salesman)
- Carnival of Mathematics 120
- A geometrical approximation for π
- Pi Day 2015: The Aperiodical goes π mad
- π and constrained writing
- Interesting π Esoterica
- Pi Day on Twitter
- I bought three.onefouronefivenine.com
- π approximation: Machin’s formula
- π and the Mysterious Excel Function
- Matt Parker approximates π by weighing a circle
- π, Phase Space, and Bouncing Billiard Balls
- π and The Simpsons
- Alex Bellos’s π Day blog post
- Cédric Villani’s Birth of a Theorem is Radio 4 Book of the Week
- How Ultimate is Ultimate π day?
- Mandelbrot’s bum is full of π
- Video: The Aperiodical’s π approximation challenge
- George Boole at 200
- The John Riordan prize for the best solution to an unsolved problem in the OEIS
- How I Wish I Could Celebrate Pi
- Puzzlebomb – March 2015
- Wolfram|Alpha can’t. But CP can!
February 2015
- Each pair of smartphones has exactly one Dobble app in common
- From the Mailbag: Golfing Combinatorics
- The Topological Tverberg Conjecture is False
- Apiological: mathematical speculations about bees (Part 2: Estimating nest volumes)
- Manchester MathsJam recap, January 2015
- Follow Friday: 13/2/15
- Axis is Missile Command for mathematicians
- Witness the awesome power of maths!
- Carnival of Mathematics 119
- Turing round-up, February 2015
- What I think about Coordimate
- Puzzlebomb – February 2015
- Happy Birthday, MAA!
January 2015
- Three Sticks
- CHENG!!!!!!
- Apiological: mathematical speculations about bees (Part 1: Honeycomb geometry)
- Review: The Mathematics of Love
- Why Should Penguins Care About Maths?
- Doctor Who and the Quaternions – the LMS’ 150th birthday party
- Counting From Infinity – A film about Yitang Zhang
- Review: “The Theory of Everything”
- Mathematician wins ‘Oscar’
- Sierpiński Carpet Project
- Carnival of Mathematics 118
- Watch the LMS become very old, LIVE
- The Aperiodical’s Best Maths Pun of 2014 Competition – The Results
- Particularly mathematical New Years Honours 2015
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness 1941-2014
- Puzzlebomb – January 2015
2014 159
December 2014
- Puzzlebomb Presents: Special 2
- Say happy birthday to Christopher Zeeman on his 90th
- Just Get 10
- Is History Important?
- Carnival of Mathematics 117
- Puzzlebomb – December 2014
- Parable of the Polygons
- Announcing The Aperiodical’s Best Maths Pun of 2014 Competition
- Things I Made And Did
- Paper about teaching using ‘unplanned impact’
- It’s bunnies all the way down – GeoBunnies reveals geometry’s hidden rabbits
- Am I a Mathematician?
November 2014
- Twitter’s favourite fictional mathematicians
- Bell’s Theorem Way
- ‘All that glitters is not golden’: a Fibonacci Day Roundup
- Alexandre Grothendieck 1928–2014
- ‘George Green’s Mathematical Influences’ — audio now available
- Watch out! I’m a blue whale and I’m about to land on you!
- Puzzlebomb – November 2014
- Apparently I’m not a maths genius (or, On the Subject of Parcel Sizes)
- There’s a new StackExchange site for History of Science and Maths
- An Alan Turing expert answers your The Imitation Game questions
- More to be done between universities and industry
- Early Memories
- Thinking Mathematically
- Is this a nonsense formula for the perfect TV episode?
- Carnival of Mathematics 116
- Le Livre de l’Incomplétude is a lovely take on incompleteness
- L’Aquila earthquake convictions overturned
- Your favourite mathematical party trick has a snazzy website
- New Mersenne primes not discovered
- The conclusions you can draw from this graph will SHOCK you
- Logically Policed
- K sera, sera: board of the Journal of K-Theory resigns (again) and starts a new journal (again)
October 2014
- News Round-up, 21/10/14
- Petition absorbs way more signatures than this product with a stupid advert ever could
- ‘The Imitation Game’ Cryptography Competition
- Carnival of Mathematics 115
- Integer Sequence Review – Sloane’s birthday edition!
- Puzzlebomb – October 2014
- Maths at the Manchester Science Festival
- Blooming Zoetrope Sculptures by John Edmark
- Please tell people about Samuel’s Relatively Prime Series 2 Kickstarter
September 2014
- Some more games to entertain a commutative mathematician
- Relatively Prime podcast series 2 Kickstarter
- KaTeX is a (partial) alternative to (some of) MathJax
- Read my thesis (an offer, rather than an instruction)
- Have fun playing with curvature
- George Green: Nottingham’s Magnificent Mathematician
- Zaha Hadid’s design for the Science Museum’s new maths hall is certainly something
- GeoGebra in 3D: ThreeoGebra!
- Puzzlebomb – September 2014
- Carnival of Mathematics 114
- The Flyspeck project is complete: we know how to stack balls!
- Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 9
August 2014
- Small gaps between large gaps between primes results
- Carnival of Mathematics 113
- We’re Stuck! Help develop mathematical theatre
- 2014 Fields Medals awarded – coverage round-up
- Maths at the British Science Festival 2014
- Third Christopher Zeeman Medal to go to Marcus du Sautoy
- Cockcroft on puzzles in maths teaching
- Not mentioned on The Aperiodical this month – August 2014
- Puzzlebomb – August 2014
- John Venn is 180
July 2014
- Listen to the premiere of “A Man from the Future”
- An Alan Turing expert watches the “The Imitation Game” trailer
- Maths movie round up
- Twin primes go to Washington
- Carnival of Mathematics 112
- Puzzlebomb – July 2014
- Matt Parker’s October adventures
June 2014
- Taking Maths Further podcast launch
- So what happened to the abc conjecture and Navier-Stokes?
- Book review: Jordan Ellenberg’s How Not To Be Wrong
- Particularly mathematical Birthday Honours 2014
- IMA 50th Anniversary events
- Carnival of Mathematics 111
- Puzzlebomb – June 2014
- CP and Cushing take the National Numeracy Challenge
- Discovering integer sequences by dealing cards
May 2014
- Mathematical soap bubbles by Juan Bragado
- Doodal
- Oh, Stephen
- Vi Hart has 3D printed a hypercube made of monkeys that has the symmetries of the Quaternion group
- Aperiodical Round Up 10: a rathole down which valuable mathematical effort is being poured
- Podcasts for a university mathematics student
- The Hidden Maths of Eurovision
- Matt Parker talks percentages
- Google Doodle: The Witch of Agnesi
- Primo: now a colourful, actual mathematical board game
- Carnival of Mathematics 110
- Make math ¬ war: American military invests in homotopy type theory
- Puzzlebomb – May 2014
April 2014
- “Really Big Numbers” by Richard Evan Schwartz, the AMS’s first book for children
- A new recreational mathematics magazine from the Ludus Association
- Adventures in video abstracts
- Rubik’s Cube is 40 years old
- Orchestral Biography of Turing
- Get a grip on mathematical symbolism with Loughborough University
- Review(ish): Mathbreakers
- Poetry in Motion
- My week at BCME8
- Peter Rowlett: Viva Survivor
- Meterfy – numbers for everyone!
- Carnival of Mathematics 109
- Domputer: the movie
- App review: Tydlig, a calculator app for iOS
- App review: Incredible Numbers, by Ian Stewart
- Puzzlebomb – April 2014
March 2014
- Jerry Roberts has died
- Guesting on the ‘Wrong, But Useful’ first anniversary episode
- MC Hammer is mathematically untouchable
- Math Awareness Month 2014
- James Grime’s house-building problem
- Yakov Sinai awarded the 2014 Abel Prize
- Everyone’s a mathematician
- Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange
- Integer sequence review: A193430
- How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in one easy step
- Follow Friday, 21/03/14
- ‘Development and evaluation of a partially-automated approach to the assessment of undergraduate mathematics’
- 3.142: a π round-up
- LASER TURING
- Carnival of Mathematics 108
- Enormous Sierpiński tetrahedron made of balloons, take 2
- Beautiful Science at the British Library
- Elsevier maths journals up to 2009 are available for free, and in a convenient format
- John Conway on Numberphile!
- Puzzlebomb – March 2014
February 2014
- Erdős’s discrepancy problem now less of a problem
- Everyone’s terrible at maths, survey finds
- Manchester MathsJam Writeup, February 2014
- Ghostcube by Erik Åberg
- Babbage’s difference engine is really, really pretty
- You have completed level 8. Game over. Insert coin.
- The neuroscience of mathematical beauty, or, Equation beauty contest!
- Tie, tie, tie a tie / Fly, fly, fly as you might
- What kind of mathematics is right for you? Maybe applied sarcasm?
- How to Teach Maths by Alex Bellos on Radio 4
- Martin Gardner Testimonials
- Carnival of Mathematics 107
- Intersections by Anila Quayyum Agha
- Why do $0!$ and $a^0$ equal $1$?
- Puzzlebomb – February 2014
January 2014
- Open Problems in Mathematics, a new open access journal
- An infinite series of blog posts which sums to -1/12
- Festival of the Spoken Nerd in geographical relocation shocker
- Spot the Ball (he’s the one talking about maths)
- Proof News: Designs exist!
- All Squared, Number 11 – Maths Jam
- An Approach That Uses Computers a Bit to Ask Questions on Numbers and Stuff in Big School
- Carnival of Mathematics #106 – December 2013
- Puzzlebomb – January 2014
- A morning in the office with CP and Cushing
- Manchester MathsJam Recap, December-ish 2013
- Tydlig, a nice calculator for iOS
- By Napier’s bones! A new exhibition celebrating the inventor of logarithms
- OEIS contest for January AMS/MAA meeting