Curling: The sport of mathematicians

Tomorrow marks the beginning of events at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and boy am I excited. This means that over the course of the next few weeks I, like many others, will become an armchair expert and superfan of some of the coolest sports in existence (pun entirely intended). One sport I always find myself

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Today I am thinking about the number . It’s one of my favourite numbers. It has been for a while in fact, but today more than ever. I’ll leave you to guess why. But in the meantime, I thought I’d share some of my top facts about the number . I got so excited that

Protected: MathsJam 2021

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Illegal Maths?

As mathematicians, we often like dealing with absolute truths. There are Platonic solids that’s never going to change. We can be certain that the angle in a semi circle is a right-angle. and that’s a fact*. But what happens when people try to enshrine mathematical truths into law. Or worse, what happens when people try

UK Maths Trust

Another venture I have been involved in is helping write UK Maths Trust daily lockdown problems. You can find them here! If you want more fun Maths things from UKMT, check out the mentoring scheme (something I also volunteer with)

Chalkdust Magazine

Another thing I have been involved in is editing issue 12 of Chalkdust Magazine. You can read the magazine in its entirety here. The magazine also has a blog attached, where we put up some fun puzzles over Christmas. The full website cal be found at this address: https://chalkdustmagazine.com We’ll be looking for submissions for

A Request

The next exciting thing I want to share with you is that next month I am hosting Aperiodical’s Carnival of Mathematics. This is a round up of all things Mathematical from January – this can be blog posts, YouTube videos, podcasts, you name it! If there’s something interesting that you or somebody else has done,

Review: Math Without Numbers

Another fun thing I have done recently is reading Maths books. Read my review of Milo Beckman’s “Math Without Numbers” here:

Updates!

You may have noticed that I had a quiet period when I didn’t upload much to the blog. I wanted to share with you the reasons for this (and tease at some exciting things to come!) The first reason is that, for a while now, I have struggled with mental health problems. In October I

Today is the day!: Ada Lovelace

The final female Mathematician profile for now must, of course, be Ada Lovelace. Today is Ada Lovelace Day – a day marked for the celebration of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Born Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace on December , Ada had an interesting start to life. She was the only