Double Maths First Thing: Issue 5D

Double Maths First Thing is 3D-printing Cristiano Ronaldo Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight that comes from engaging with maths. I understand there’s a soccerball elimination in progress at the moment; I am paying little attention until the last game of the group stage, where there’s interesting maths to be had. (At least this time it seems that Scotland’s inevitable Scotlanding-up and Scotlanding-out will be in the “decent effort, not quite enough” category rather than the “dismal humiliation” I’d feared.) Links In football news, Kit Yates has advice on stickerbooking, something Ayliean has talked about on the radio, but you might prefer to see written down. Matt Scroggs has covered it, too. Kit has a new book out, You Don’t Know What You’re Missing, which he talks about on his substack. I loved this collection of quotes from Pieces of Mathematics, especially Richard Hammack‘s “Frustration is a natural part of anything that’s…