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THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.MAKING TRICURVES
You're reading: Irregulars Making Tricurves. By Katie Steckles and Tim Lexen.Posted February 18, 2019 in Irregulars. Tim Lexen has written a series of posts on the topic of Tricurves: Bending the Law of Sines, Combining Tricurves and Phantom Tiling.In this latest post, Tim has been working with our own Katie Steckles to turn Tricurves into real objects to play with. HOW TO SOLVE A RUBIK’S CUBE IN ONE EASY STEP You're reading: Blackboard Bold, Features How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in one easy step. By Paul Taylor.Posted March 23, 2014 in Blackboard Bold, Features. Note: If you’re looking for instructions on solving Rubik’s cube from any position, there’s a good page at Think Maths. One day some years ago I was sat at my desk idly toying with the office Rubik’s cube. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHT 6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
13532385396179 DOESN’T CLIMB TO A PRIME 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime. By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted June 7, 2017 in News. Someone called James Davis has found a counterexample to John H. Conway’s “Climb to a Prime” conjecture, for which Conway was offering $ 1,000 for a solution. The conjecture goes like this, as stated in Conway’s list of $ 1,000 problems: MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. REVIEW: MATH WITHOUT NUMBERS BY MILO BECKMAN The aim of Math Without Numbers is to demystify maths, and to help everybody to see the true beauty of the subject. Part of the struggle you may have faced when trying to enthuse others about maths is getting them to give it a chance. Beckman’s solution is to make the idea of a maths book less scary, by promising that “the only numbersin
THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.MAKING TRICURVES
You're reading: Irregulars Making Tricurves. By Katie Steckles and Tim Lexen.Posted February 18, 2019 in Irregulars. Tim Lexen has written a series of posts on the topic of Tricurves: Bending the Law of Sines, Combining Tricurves and Phantom Tiling.In this latest post, Tim has been working with our own Katie Steckles to turn Tricurves into real objects to play with. HOW TO SOLVE A RUBIK’S CUBE IN ONE EASY STEP You're reading: Blackboard Bold, Features How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in one easy step. By Paul Taylor.Posted March 23, 2014 in Blackboard Bold, Features. Note: If you’re looking for instructions on solving Rubik’s cube from any position, there’s a good page at Think Maths. One day some years ago I was sat at my desk idly toying with the office Rubik’s cube. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHT 6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
13532385396179 DOESN’T CLIMB TO A PRIME 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime. By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted June 7, 2017 in News. Someone called James Davis has found a counterexample to John H. Conway’s “Climb to a Prime” conjecture, for which Conway was offering $ 1,000 for a solution. The conjecture goes like this, as stated in Conway’s list of $ 1,000 problems: MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. HOW TO SOLVE A RUBIK’S CUBE IN ONE EASY STEP You're reading: Blackboard Bold, Features How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in one easy step. By Paul Taylor.Posted March 23, 2014 in Blackboard Bold, Features. Note: If you’re looking for instructions on solving Rubik’s cube from any position, there’s a good page at Think Maths. One day some years ago I was sat at my desk idly toying with the office Rubik’s cube. PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. HOW MANY WAYS TO SHUFFLE A PACK OF CARDS? You're reading: Features, Irregulars How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards? By Matt Parker.Posted July 3, 2015 in Features, Irregulars. This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback. THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT Part of this included a presentation by Noel-Ann Bradshaw on mnemonics to remember the digits of pi. An example is the following: How I wish I could calculate pi. Look at the number of digits in each word in this sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4, and so on. It makes 3141592, the first seven digits of pi. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS You're reading: Blackboard Bold The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths. By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor.Posted May 14, 2016 in Blackboard Bold. It’s Eurovision time again! A chance for everyone to enjoy musical performances that are either good or so bad they’re good, ridiculous staging, and hilarious costumes, all sprinkled with a gently sarcastic Irish voiceover (if you’re 13532385396179 DOESN’T CLIMB TO A PRIME 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime. By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted June 7, 2017 in News. Someone called James Davis has found a counterexample to John H. Conway’s “Climb to a Prime” conjecture, for which Conway was offering $ 1,000 for a solution. The conjecture goes like this, as stated in Conway’s list of $ 1,000 problems: THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART I) You're reading: Features, Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I) By James Grime.Posted April 29, 2013 in Features, Irregulars. As you may well know, Star Trek was a science fiction TV show in the late 1960s. It featured futuristic technology and science fiction ideas such as warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds, time travel, and green alien space babes. BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the REVIEW: MATH WITHOUT NUMBERS BY MILO BECKMAN This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH In my new book, The Maths of Life and Death, I explore the true stories of life-changing events in which the application (or misapplication) of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupt by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches. Π APPROXIMATION: MACHIN’S FORMULA You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World π approximation: Machin’s formula. By Peter Rowlett.Posted March 13, 2015 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In the excellent $\pi$ approximation video, Katie Steckles asked for $\pi$ approximations.I teach a first year techniques module (mostly calculus and a little complex numbers andlinear algebra).
THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS ADVANTAGES OF ASSESSMENT 7 Responses to “Advantages of assessment – please discuss”. kensson January 21st, 2013 . I was interested in the process Keith Devlin was talking about on some podcast or other recently, about getting students to mark each other’s work, anonymously, from arubric.
THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the SURDS: WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR? 13 Responses to “Surds: what are they good for?”. Anonymous October 1st, 2012 . I went to school in the 70s and 80sdon’t think I heard the word surd until my teenage kids brought it home. It sounds like part of the toolbox of tricks, like “chunking”, that they were given to make manipulating equations and doing arithmetic etc easier than it ever was for us. FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHT 6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
REVIEW: MATH WITHOUT NUMBERS BY MILO BECKMAN This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH In my new book, The Maths of Life and Death, I explore the true stories of life-changing events in which the application (or misapplication) of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupt by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches. Π APPROXIMATION: MACHIN’S FORMULA You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World π approximation: Machin’s formula. By Peter Rowlett.Posted March 13, 2015 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In the excellent $\pi$ approximation video, Katie Steckles asked for $\pi$ approximations.I teach a first year techniques module (mostly calculus and a little complex numbers andlinear algebra).
THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS ADVANTAGES OF ASSESSMENT 7 Responses to “Advantages of assessment – please discuss”. kensson January 21st, 2013 . I was interested in the process Keith Devlin was talking about on some podcast or other recently, about getting students to mark each other’s work, anonymously, from arubric.
THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the SURDS: WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR? 13 Responses to “Surds: what are they good for?”. Anonymous October 1st, 2012 . I went to school in the 70s and 80sdon’t think I heard the word surd until my teenage kids brought it home. It sounds like part of the toolbox of tricks, like “chunking”, that they were given to make manipulating equations and doing arithmetic etc easier than it ever was for us. FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHT 6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS You're reading: Mathematical Objects Mathematical Objects: Arbelos. By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.Posted May 21, 2021. A conversation about mathematics inspired by an arbelos. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Catriona Agg.. Catriona mentions this proof without words, which is taken from Proof Without Words: The Area of an Arbelos by Roger B. Nelsen in THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH In my new book, The Maths of Life and Death, I explore the true stories of life-changing events in which the application (or misapplication) of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupt by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches.LUCY RYCROFT-SMITH
You're reading: Posts By Lucy Rycroft-Smith IWD 2020: Books about Maths by Women. By Lucy Rycroft-Smith.Posted March 8, 2020. For International Women’s Day, mathematician Lucy Rycroft-Smith has read a selection of maths books by women authors, and recommended somefavourites.
MATHS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Even if you don’t know any children of such an age, you might be interested to know there are charities which arrange for copies of books to be sent out to disadvantaged children and schools that don’t otherwise have the resources to get hold of books – and we’ve partnered with GiveABook.org.uk, who do exactly that – so if there are any books in this list you’d be happy to buy a HOW TO SOLVE A RUBIK’S CUBE IN ONE EASY STEP You're reading: Blackboard Bold, Features How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in one easy step. By Paul Taylor.Posted March 23, 2014 in Blackboard Bold, Features. Note: If you’re looking for instructions on solving Rubik’s cube from any position, there’s a good page at Think Maths. One day some years ago I was sat at my desk idly toying with the office Rubik’s cube. PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
PROBABILITY OF DEALING FOUR PERFECT HANDS OF CARDS IN A 8 Responses to “Probability of dealing four perfect hands of cards in a world of random shufflers”. Chris Taylor November 19th, 2013 . I can read this article for about 10 seconds. After that, all the probabilities (which were legible) suddenly become . HOW MANY WAYS TO SHUFFLE A PACK OF CARDS? You're reading: Features, Irregulars How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards? By Matt Parker.Posted July 3, 2015 in Features, Irregulars. This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback. HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT One Response to “How I wish I could calculate #pihunt”. Francis McDonnell September 23rd, 2010 . I made up the following mnemonic for pi to 30 decimal places when I was feeling a bit tetchy: All I need, I think, providing it yields peace all along whenever pestering persons telephone, may be one computer with modem(s) to safely “surf the net” – blocking out, by stealth, annoyance! MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversyMAKING TRICURVES
You're reading: Irregulars Making Tricurves. By Katie Steckles and Tim Lexen.Posted February 18, 2019 in Irregulars. Tim Lexen has written a series of posts on the topic of Tricurves: Bending the Law of Sines, Combining Tricurves and Phantom Tiling.In this latest post, Tim has been working with our own Katie Steckles to turn Tricurves into real objects to play with. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHT 6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
PROBABILITY OF DEALING FOUR PERFECT HANDS OF CARDS IN A 8 Responses to “Probability of dealing four perfect hands of cards in a world of random shufflers”. Chris Taylor November 19th, 2013 . I can read this article for about 10 seconds. After that, all the probabilities (which were legible) suddenly become . 13532385396179 DOESN’T CLIMB TO A PRIME 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime. By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted June 7, 2017 in News. Someone called James Davis has found a counterexample to John H. Conway’s “Climb to a Prime” conjecture, for which Conway was offering $ 1,000 for a solution. The conjecture goes like this, as stated in Conway’s list of $ 1,000 problems: MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversyMAKING TRICURVES
You're reading: Irregulars Making Tricurves. By Katie Steckles and Tim Lexen.Posted February 18, 2019 in Irregulars. Tim Lexen has written a series of posts on the topic of Tricurves: Bending the Law of Sines, Combining Tricurves and Phantom Tiling.In this latest post, Tim has been working with our own Katie Steckles to turn Tricurves into real objects to play with. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHT 6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
PROBABILITY OF DEALING FOUR PERFECT HANDS OF CARDS IN A 8 Responses to “Probability of dealing four perfect hands of cards in a world of random shufflers”. Chris Taylor November 19th, 2013 . I can read this article for about 10 seconds. After that, all the probabilities (which were legible) suddenly become . 13532385396179 DOESN’T CLIMB TO A PRIME 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime. By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted June 7, 2017 in News. Someone called James Davis has found a counterexample to John H. Conway’s “Climb to a Prime” conjecture, for which Conway was offering $ 1,000 for a solution. The conjecture goes like this, as stated in Conway’s list of $ 1,000 problems: MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
KNITTING ESCHER PATTERNS Knitting Escher patterns. By Katie Steckles. Posted September 4, 2012 in Arty Maths. Following on from our maths/knitting post earlier this month, we’ve found a knitting blog full of knitted MC Escher designs. The famously mathematical graphic artist MC Escher was king of tessellating designs with repeated fish, birds and other animals.Jana
PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. HOW TO SOLVE A RUBIK’S CUBE IN ONE EASY STEP You're reading: Blackboard Bold, Features How to solve a Rubik’s Cube in one easy step. By Paul Taylor.Posted March 23, 2014 in Blackboard Bold, Features. Note: If you’re looking for instructions on solving Rubik’s cube from any position, there’s a good page at Think Maths. One day some years ago I was sat at my desk idly toying with the office Rubik’s cube.MAKING TRICURVES
You're reading: Irregulars Making Tricurves. By Katie Steckles and Tim Lexen.Posted February 18, 2019 in Irregulars. Tim Lexen has written a series of posts on the topic of Tricurves: Bending the Law of Sines, Combining Tricurves and Phantom Tiling.In this latest post, Tim has been working with our own Katie Steckles to turn Tricurves into real objects to play with. HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT Part of this included a presentation by Noel-Ann Bradshaw on mnemonics to remember the digits of pi. An example is the following: How I wish I could calculate pi. Look at the number of digits in each word in this sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4, and so on. It makes 3141592, the first seven digits of pi. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS You're reading: Blackboard Bold The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths. By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor.Posted May 14, 2016 in Blackboard Bold. It’s Eurovision time again! A chance for everyone to enjoy musical performances that are either good or so bad they’re good, ridiculous staging, and hilarious costumes, all sprinkled with a gently sarcastic Irish voiceover (if you’re 13532385396179 DOESN’T CLIMB TO A PRIME 13532385396179 doesn’t climb to a prime. By Christian Lawson-Perfect. Posted June 7, 2017 in News. Someone called James Davis has found a counterexample to John H. Conway’s “Climb to a Prime” conjecture, for which Conway was offering $ 1,000 for a solution. The conjecture goes like this, as stated in Conway’s list of $ 1,000 problems: THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART I) You're reading: Features, Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I) By James Grime.Posted April 29, 2013 in Features, Irregulars. As you may well know, Star Trek was a science fiction TV show in the late 1960s. It featured futuristic technology and science fiction ideas such as warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds, time travel, and green alien space babes. MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths JamALL SQUARED
You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths. THE MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY OF THE GAME SET A SET is a collection of three cards such that for each of the four attributes, the cards are all the same or all different values. In the picture below, one such set is comprised of the 1 green striped diamond, 2 green plain ovals, and 3 green shaded squiggles. Or in terms of vector coordinates, ( 1, 0, 1, 0), ( 2, 0, 0, 1), and ( 0, 0,2, 2).
PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. KLEIN: OUTSIDE THE BOTTLE You're reading: Features Klein: outside the bottle. By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett.Posted April 25, 2012 in Features. If you’ve heard of Felix Klein, it’s probably due to the Klein bottle, that strange four-dimensional object that is the subject of a new video here on The Aperiodical starring Katie Steckles and Matt Parker. Who is Klein and, apart from the bottle, what did HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT Part of this included a presentation by Noel-Ann Bradshaw on mnemonics to remember the digits of pi. An example is the following: How I wish I could calculate pi. Look at the number of digits in each word in this sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4, and so on. It makes 3141592, the first seven digits of pi. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS You're reading: Blackboard Bold The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths. By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor.Posted May 14, 2016 in Blackboard Bold. It’s Eurovision time again! A chance for everyone to enjoy musical performances that are either good or so bad they’re good, ridiculous staging, and hilarious costumes, all sprinkled with a gently sarcastic Irish voiceover (if you’re HOW MANY WAYS TO SHUFFLE A PACK OF CARDS? You're reading: Features, Irregulars How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards? By Matt Parker.Posted July 3, 2015 in Features, Irregulars. This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback. THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART I) You're reading: Features, Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I) By James Grime.Posted April 29, 2013 in Features, Irregulars. As you may well know, Star Trek was a science fiction TV show in the late 1960s. It featured futuristic technology and science fiction ideas such as warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds, time travel, and green alien space babes. MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths JamALL SQUARED
You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths. THE MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY OF THE GAME SET A SET is a collection of three cards such that for each of the four attributes, the cards are all the same or all different values. In the picture below, one such set is comprised of the 1 green striped diamond, 2 green plain ovals, and 3 green shaded squiggles. Or in terms of vector coordinates, ( 1, 0, 1, 0), ( 2, 0, 0, 1), and ( 0, 0,2, 2).
PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. KLEIN: OUTSIDE THE BOTTLE You're reading: Features Klein: outside the bottle. By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett.Posted April 25, 2012 in Features. If you’ve heard of Felix Klein, it’s probably due to the Klein bottle, that strange four-dimensional object that is the subject of a new video here on The Aperiodical starring Katie Steckles and Matt Parker. Who is Klein and, apart from the bottle, what did HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT Part of this included a presentation by Noel-Ann Bradshaw on mnemonics to remember the digits of pi. An example is the following: How I wish I could calculate pi. Look at the number of digits in each word in this sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4, and so on. It makes 3141592, the first seven digits of pi. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS You're reading: Blackboard Bold The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths. By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor.Posted May 14, 2016 in Blackboard Bold. It’s Eurovision time again! A chance for everyone to enjoy musical performances that are either good or so bad they’re good, ridiculous staging, and hilarious costumes, all sprinkled with a gently sarcastic Irish voiceover (if you’re HOW MANY WAYS TO SHUFFLE A PACK OF CARDS? You're reading: Features, Irregulars How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards? By Matt Parker.Posted July 3, 2015 in Features, Irregulars. This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback. THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART I) You're reading: Features, Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I) By James Grime.Posted April 29, 2013 in Features, Irregulars. As you may well know, Star Trek was a science fiction TV show in the late 1960s. It featured futuristic technology and science fiction ideas such as warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds, time travel, and green alien space babes. MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
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You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT Part of this included a presentation by Noel-Ann Bradshaw on mnemonics to remember the digits of pi. An example is the following: How I wish I could calculate pi. Look at the number of digits in each word in this sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4, and so on. It makes 3141592, the first seven digits of pi.ALL SQUARED
You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths. KLEIN: OUTSIDE THE BOTTLE You're reading: Features Klein: outside the bottle. By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett.Posted April 25, 2012 in Features. If you’ve heard of Felix Klein, it’s probably due to the Klein bottle, that strange four-dimensional object that is the subject of a new video here on The Aperiodical starring Katie Steckles and Matt Parker. Who is Klein and, apart from the bottle, what did PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. THE MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY OF THE GAME SET A SET is a collection of three cards such that for each of the four attributes, the cards are all the same or all different values. In the picture below, one such set is comprised of the 1 green striped diamond, 2 green plain ovals, and 3 green shaded squiggles. Or in terms of vector coordinates, ( 1, 0, 1, 0), ( 2, 0, 0, 1), and ( 0, 0,2, 2).
HOW MANY WAYS TO SHUFFLE A PACK OF CARDS? You're reading: Features, Irregulars How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards? By Matt Parker.Posted July 3, 2015 in Features, Irregulars. This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS You're reading: Blackboard Bold The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths. By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor.Posted May 14, 2016 in Blackboard Bold. It’s Eurovision time again! A chance for everyone to enjoy musical performances that are either good or so bad they’re good, ridiculous staging, and hilarious costumes, all sprinkled with a gently sarcastic Irish voiceover (if you’re THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART I) You're reading: Features, Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I) By James Grime.Posted April 29, 2013 in Features, Irregulars. As you may well know, Star Trek was a science fiction TV show in the late 1960s. It featured futuristic technology and science fiction ideas such as warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds, time travel, and green alien space babes. MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
ALL SQUARED
You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS Posted November 9, 2020. For anyone who gets their podcasts through YouTube, and for the attention of anyone who didn’t already know about the Mathematical Objects podcast, we’ve started posting old episodes on the Aperiodical’s YouTube channel, and will do so once a week (10am GMT on Mondays) until we catch up with the current episode. THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH The God Equation. In November 2016, Daniella and John Else’s 14-month-old son, Rudi, was rushed to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. He was hooked up to a ventilator to keep him breathing, with doctors telling Daniella and John that Rudi might not last the night. The cause of the alarm was a common chest infection that most childrenwould
ALL SQUARED
You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect. THE HIDDEN MATHS OF EUROVISION You're reading: Blackboard Bold The Hidden Maths of Eurovision. By Paul Taylor.Posted May 18, 2014 in Blackboard Bold. Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest brings with it fresh accusations that the results are affected more by politics than music. But how much of the outcome is in fact determined by mathematics? On Sunday the Independent ran a story reporting on a ‘voting controversy REVIEW: HUMBLE PI, BY MATT PARKER There are many things I admire about Matt Parker (or, to give him his full title, Friend of the Aperiodical, Mathematician Matt Parker) and his work, but probably top of the list is how he switches, apparently effortlessly, between modes.One minute, he’s showing off a fax machine to a group of hard-core geeks with Festival of the Spoken Nerd; the previous, he’s inspiring a “lively BOOKS A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO’S GOOD AT MATHS MIGHT ENJOY Sue van Hattum suggested Math Girls by Hiroshi Yuki, The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan.. Math Girls is a novel “combining mathematical rigour with light romance”, and a few people chimed in to agree that it would be a good present. The Number Devil is an illustrated children’s book.The Man Who Counted recounts the THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART III10 POWER OF 410 TO THE FOURTH POWER2 TO THE 4THI TO THE 4TH POWERTO THE 4TH POWERCALCULATOR
You're reading: Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part III) By James Grime.Posted May 3, 2013 in Irregulars. This is the third in a series of posts about the maths of Star Trek. Part I covered the probability of survival while wearing a red shirt, and Part II discussed the mathematics of alien biology. Are we alone inthe galaxy?
FOUR PERFECT HANDS: AN EVENT NEVER SEEN BEFORE (RIGHTPERFECT HANDS CAR WASHPERFECT HANDS HEALTHCAREPERFECT HANDS HOME CAREHELPING HANDSLANCASTER OHIO
6 Responses to “Four perfect hands: An event never seen before (right?)”. Peter Rowlett December 7th, 2011 . I should have acknowledged John Read sent me the original story. I forgot this because it was a while ago and I already had the story on my list for the podcast. John sent it with a note Tom Button had posted on Twitter about the talk we saw on card shuffling at the Maths Jam HOW I WISH I COULD CALCULATE #PIHUNT Part of this included a presentation by Noel-Ann Bradshaw on mnemonics to remember the digits of pi. An example is the following: How I wish I could calculate pi. Look at the number of digits in each word in this sentence. The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4, and so on. It makes 3141592, the first seven digits of pi.ALL SQUARED
You're reading: All Squared The Maths Podcast to end all Maths Podcasts. By Katie Steckles.Posted December 2, 2018. At the MathsJam weekend gathering earlier this month, we found ourselves invited to join maths podcasting supremo Samuel Hansen for a recording session. Nothing unusual there: podcasts have been recorded at MathsJam before.NONSENSE FORMULAS
Welcome to the 131st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival which scoots its way round the internet, rounding up maths-related blog posts from the month of January.. Not mentioned on the Aperiodical, 3/4/15. By Katie Steckles.Posted April 3, 2015. Here’s a round-up of some mathematical news from last month. CHENG!!!!! By Christian Lawson-Perfect.SOPHIE MACLEAN
This guest review is written by Sophie Maclean. Math Without Numbers will be released on 7th January. I think it’s safe to say that all fans of The Aperiodical like maths. I would also be confident in saying that there’s a shared feeling of “the more the merrier”, and we want as many people as possible to share our love of maths. KLEIN: OUTSIDE THE BOTTLE You're reading: Features Klein: outside the bottle. By Christian Lawson-Perfect and Peter Rowlett.Posted April 25, 2012 in Features. If you’ve heard of Felix Klein, it’s probably due to the Klein bottle, that strange four-dimensional object that is the subject of a new video here on The Aperiodical starring Katie Steckles and Matt Parker. Who is Klein and, apart from the bottle, what did PRIME BIRTHDAYS: JAMES GRIME PHENOMENON You're reading: Travels in a Mathematical World Prime birthdays: James Grime phenomenon. By Peter Rowlett.Posted September 1, 2010 in Travels in a Mathematical World. In working out prime birthdays, James Grime remarked that his 1331th prime birthday would be “extra special”, and left it to his followers to work out why.The answer, of course, is that it is also his annual birthday. THE MATHEMATICAL BEAUTY OF THE GAME SET A SET is a collection of three cards such that for each of the four attributes, the cards are all the same or all different values. In the picture below, one such set is comprised of the 1 green striped diamond, 2 green plain ovals, and 3 green shaded squiggles. Or in terms of vector coordinates, ( 1, 0, 1, 0), ( 2, 0, 0, 1), and ( 0, 0,2, 2).
HOW MANY WAYS TO SHUFFLE A PACK OF CARDS? You're reading: Features, Irregulars How many ways to shuffle a pack of cards? By Matt Parker.Posted July 3, 2015 in Features, Irregulars. This is an excerpt from friend of The Aperiodical, Matt Parker’s book, “Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension”, which is out now in paperback. THE NEW EUROVISION SCORING SYSTEM: THE MATHS You're reading: Blackboard Bold The new Eurovision scoring system: the maths. By Katie Steckles and Paul Taylor.Posted May 14, 2016 in Blackboard Bold. It’s Eurovision time again! A chance for everyone to enjoy musical performances that are either good or so bad they’re good, ridiculous staging, and hilarious costumes, all sprinkled with a gently sarcastic Irish voiceover (if you’re THE MATHS OF STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PART I) You're reading: Features, Irregulars The Maths of Star Trek: The Original Series (Part I) By James Grime.Posted April 29, 2013 in Features, Irregulars. As you may well know, Star Trek was a science fiction TV show in the late 1960s. It featured futuristic technology and science fiction ideas such as warp drives, transporters, strange new worlds, time travel, and green alien space babes.THE APERIODICAL
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CARNIVAL OF MATHEMATICS #179 By Paul Taylor . Posted March12, 2020
Welcome to the 179th Carnival of Mathematics. The Carnival is a monthly post, hosted by a different maths blog each month, collecting interesting mathematical content from all over the internet. This time, we’re on home turf – here at the Aperiodical, with a post by regular guest author Paul Taylor.Interviews ,
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PODCASTING ABOUT: RISKY TALK PODCAST By Katie Steckles . PostedMarch 11, 2020
In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical podcasts from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the podcast and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Ilan Goodman from the Winton Centre for Risk & Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, about the centre’s new podcast Risky…News
RICHARD K. GUY (1916-2020) By Christian Lawson-Perfect . Posted March 10, 2020 We’re greatly saddened to hear of the death of Richard K. Guy yesterday morning. He was 103. Richard K. Guy was a prolific collaborator. He co-authored four papers with Paul Erdős, worked frequently with John H. Conway and Elwyn Berlekamp, and was a frequent contributor to Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column. The mostwell-known of…
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For International Women’s Day, mathematician Lucy Rycroft-Smith has read a selection of maths books by women authors, and recommended some favourites. There’s a strange irony about being a woman in mathematics. You spend a huge amount of time and energy answering questions about being a woman in mathematics instead of, you know,using that time…
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WHERE COULD YOU (OR YOUR RICH PAL) GIVE EVERYONE $1 MILLION? By Christian Lawson-Perfect . Posted March 7, 2020 Recently someone on Twitter, and then two people on US cable news, said that Michael Bloomberg could have used the $500 million he spent on his presidential campaign to give everyone in the USA $1 million. This caused quite a fuss. In short, someone divided 500 by 327, saw that the answer was bigger than… Mathematical Objects MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS: ROBOT CATERPILLAR By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett . Posted February 28,2020
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