Double Maths First Thing: Issue 60

Double Maths First Thing has a suspended suspension. Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to find and spread mathematical joy, and encourage the idea that maths isn’t just endless sheets of exercises – you can sprinkle it in art, in music, in anything you enjoy and add an extra dimension. This week, I have been lunging two-footed at meteorological assumptions and coming up with novel data visualisation ideas (what’s better than a rose diagram or a violin plot? A radial violin diagram, of course! And of course I’ve been trying to work in a “Stradivariance” joke, but no dice so far.) Links Immortality sounds good, right? You can achieve it by submitting an excellent candidate for OEIS’s 400,000th integer sequence. It’s expected to reach that milestone later in 2026. Some Wikipedia games I’m not sure I’ve shared previously: Redactle, where you have to deduce what’s in an article a word at a time, and Catfishing, a “guess the article from its categories” game. In…