Double Maths First Thing: Issue 71

Double Maths First Thing dislikes fireworks Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in mathematical thinking and practice. This week I am mainly rehearsing my Big MathsJam talk and seeing what I can trim out to get it down to five minutes. In likelihood, I’ll do that and find that it takes three in the end. I’m talking about row 0 of Pascal’s triangle and what its graph looks like. Links Big news from the OEIS: they’ve decided what should be A400000. It’s a nice sequence. I’m a bit disheartened that the list of winners and honourable mentions comprises (to the best of my judgement) only men. In reading around, it, I stumbled on this lovely fractal on Rémy Sigrist’s page and thought it was worth animating. A delightfully old-school virtual museum of calculators. In other “mathematically interesting collections” but in the real world, Mair has gone Boole-hunting in Lincoln. I’m a fan of crosswords, and especially anagrams. This absurd…

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