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130 from 17 Oct 2008 to 11 Oct 2026
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2026 1

  1. New webpage

2017 1

  1. Functional Drawing at C&!

2016 4

  1. Let them be
  2. Making Spheres
  3. The Curve in the Curvahedra
  4. CURVAHEDRA

2015 2

  1. Eigencurves
  2. Snowflake, Seashell, Star

2014 5

  1. Data Visualisation, from the World Cup to Drugs in Arkansas
  2. How to Play Like a Mathematician
  3. Twelve and the real life problems problem
  4. Rational parameterisation of the circle
  5. The TMC Logo

2013 5

  1. Form follows functions
  2. Numbers, letters and exponential growth
  3. Mathematics out loud
  4. Handcrafting the digital: Wedding rings
  5. Permutations, weaving and wedding rings

2012 11

  1. Two Englishmen and a mountain.
  2. Five principles of the evil teaching guru
  3. Education Depression
  4. Build a heaven in hell’s despite
  5. Old models of education
  6. Have we ever lost mathematics?
  7. The 2×1 rectangle and Domes
  8. Prime Phyllotaxis Spirals
  9. The future we deserve
  10. Being wrong
  11. Word powers of ten

2011 18

  1. Polynomials in Wood
  2. 2+2 = 1? Patterns in Modular arithmetic
  3. Hyperboloid lighting
  4. Don Quixote tilts at Zeta functions
  5. Magnetic Klein Quartic
  6. Camel
  7. The University Project: Stories and Science
  8. The Academy: Axiom 1
  9. Hexayurt dome details and models
  10. Will the next generation act?
  11. Numbers are meaningless
  12. In memorium: Foyle’s Mathematics room.
  13. Why not knot wire?
  14. Arrange whatever pieces come your way
  15. I find myself looking for a job…
  16. Stars in the snow
  17. Imagine you will talk to monkeys…
  18. Game theory: mathematics as metaphor

2010 25

  1. Islamic Geometry
  2. Mathematical Scales
  3. Every year most of the world’s greatest artworks are swept up and thrown away
  4. Education and Research
  5. Mathematics is vital!
  6. The Future We Deserve: Solar Photovoltaic Energy Replication
  7. Computers beat the devil?
  8. Icosahedral Tiling Model
  9. Markets and Mushrooms
  10. Lasercutting acrylic dust patterns
  11. Tiling Typography
  12. Under the Volcano
  13. Would an Alternative Vote make a difference?
  14. Carnival of Mathematics #65
  15. Hexayurts and African Villages
  16. Lasering my Laptop
  17. My dream Royal Institution
  18. Socolar and Taylor’s aperiodic tile.
  19. Finding Ada: Alicia Stott Boole
  20. Building Mathematics: The Maker Faire in Pictures
  21. The Laws of Gelada (How to be a grad student)
  22. Recent and current projects
  23. Reflections in spheres
  24. Spirographs and the third dimension
  25. LMS internet communication 2

2009 40

  1. LMS internet communication
  2. Natural and Maths Sculpture
  3. How to write machines
  4. Laptops are not the problem…
  5. Communication at the LMS
  6. The strange quest: Mathematics as Concrete Art
  7. Surfaces in 3 and 4 dimensions
  8. Use of Mathematics and Hyperscopes
  9. Mathematical materials
  10. Future Fantasy
  11. Future of the LMS
  12. Unscheduled Post: The Silver Ratio
  13. How do shapes fill space?
  14. WoW 7: The secret life of numbers
  15. Interesting Manhole covers
  16. WoW 6: Gorgeous 4d graphics
  17. WoW 5: Finding numbers
  18. Unscheduled Post: Subtlety and swine flu
  19. Building Mathematics: Sculpture system No. 5
  20. Unscheduled Post: Penrose vs Zeilberger
  21. Unscheduled Post: The British Police
  22. Twitter
  23. WoW 4: Fractals
  24. Unscheduled Post: Hyperbolic Polydron
  25. Unscheduled Post: Niches and responsibility
  26. WoW 3: Integer Sequences
  27. Angle sum formulae
  28. Unscheduled Post: Visualising 3D
  29. WoW 2: vZome
  30. Unscheduled Post: No Science without Fancy
  31. Surfaces 2: Algebraic Surfaces
  32. WoW 1: Perspective Carpark
  33. Unscheduled Post: Faster than the speed of wind
  34. Surfaces 1: The ooze of the past
  35. Unscheduled Post: Don’t keep calm and carry on…
  36. Unscheduled Post: Gang aft agley
  37. Polymath
  38. Unscheduled Post: Poem on the DLR
  39. Airports
  40. The latest maths carnival…

2008 18

  1. Unscheduled Post: Extensive research shows…
  2. The search for the truth can never stop.
  3. Eigenfactor
  4. Responsibility of Mathematicians
  5. Unscheduled Post: Recent Blog Carnivals
  6. How to improve your talks
  7. Unscheduled Post: A couple of interesting posts
  8. Book Review: Mathematics a Very Long Introduction
  9. Carnival of Mathematics #44
  10. About my art
  11. Unscheduled Post: Mathematics and Pseudo-mathematics
  12. Unscheduled Post: Blog Carnivals
  13. Rep-tiles, or how mathematicians start to puzzle and open up questions.
  14. Working with constraints
  15. Mathematics, Computers and Zeilberger
  16. Unscheduled post: Why start blogging now?
  17. Experiences working with Artists
  18. Just what the world needs!