Double Maths First Thing: Issue 72

Double Maths First Thing has two more sleep until Big MathsJam Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread the joy and delight in doing maths, solving problems, and thinking really hard. Big MathsJam is almost upon us – I’ll be travelling up to Milton Keynes on Friday and I’ll be talking about Pascal’s Triangle on Saturday afternoon. Maybe I’ll see you there – do say hello! Apologies to email subscribers who received an incorrectly-numbered newsletter last week. Counting is, as has been well-established, hard. Links There comes a time in everyone’s life when they NEED an automatic Lego drawing machine. Let’s all fawn over Captain Packrat’s slide rule. Puzzles don’t need to be hard to be enjoyable. But if you’d like something a bit harder, this one’s a doozy. Here’s Ayliean talking about Truchet tiles, which are among my favourite patterns. Peter Kagey has a nice post that references my article on them from 2018, which feels like a lifetime ago. And let’s…

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