Double Maths First Thing: Issue 70

Double Maths First Thing picked the wrong week to give up Lemsip Hello! My name is Colin and I am mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight of doing, thinking about, playing with and suffering from mathematics. I am not on a mission to suffer from a cold the week I’m meant to be recording an album, but here we are. I’m also emerging from a cloud of too much work, which is likely related to the lurgy. Hopefully I can put some more time into doing maths I enjoy over the next few weeks. Big MathsJam is but weeks away; I’ve sketched out my talk and I’m looking forward to tormenting people about the zeroth row of Pascal’s triangle. Links Now, I’ve had a huge uptick in developers emailing me links and vouchers for daily puzzle games and I don’t have the time or energy to figure out which ones are worth looking at. Daily games might still feature here, but cold emails are not the way to promote them to me. The way to get my attention is to get someone I trust to mention them…