The Aperiodcast

Aperiodcast – MathsJam 2013!

We haven’t done one of these for absolutely ages. Since all three of us were at the big MathsJam conference a couple of weekends ago, we decided to introduce a local minimum into the fun curve by sitting down and talking about how this site’s doing. Actually, we ended up talking about the MathsJam baking competition [http://www.mathsjam.com/conference/index.php?content=cakes] for absolutely ages. When we got round to talking about the site, we mentioned: * Council orders maths & Sudoku to be removed from mathematician’s gravestone [http://aperiodical.com/2013/10/council-orders-maths-sudoku-removed-from-gravestone/] * Prime gaps update [http://aperiodical.com/2013/10/prime-gaps-update/] * All Squared, number 10: maths journalism [http://aperiodical.com/2013/10/all-squared-number-10-maths-journalism/] * From the mailbag: dual inversal numbers [http://aperiodical.com/2013/11/from-the-mailbag-dual-inversal-numbers/] * Carnival of Mathematics 104 [http://aperiodical.com/2013/11/carnival-of-mathematics-104/] * Submit a thing to the next Carnival of Mathematics [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dC1IREpjV1lVRE1xcml2bXJDUzhqTXc6MQ#gid=0]

Aperiodcast – 11/02/2013

Two days late, because that is the way we rotate here, it’s another episode of our sporadic navel-gazing podcast. In this episode we talked about: * Our piece on the Invariant Subspace Problem [http://aperiodical.com/2013/01/the-invariant-subspace-problem-solved-for-hilbert-space/] (and the more recent news [http://aperiodical.com/2013/02/the-invariant-subspace-problem-is-still-a-problem/]) * Log-log! Who’s there? Not a power law! [http://aperiodical.com/2013/01/log-log-whos-there-not-a-power-law/] * Our coverage of the new Mersenne Prime news [http://aperiodical.com/2013/02/more-experimental-evidence-for-the-infinitude-of-the-primes/], and our meta-coverage of everyone else’s coverage of it [http://aperiodical.com/2013/02/of-little-practical-value/] * The good, the bad, and Gowers [http://aperiodical.com/2013/01/the-good-the-bad-and-gowers/] * Interesting comments discussion on the ‘What is a mathematician’ [http://aperiodical.com/2012/04/what-is-a-mathematician/] post * The first in Katie’s series of Open Season posts, on Singmaster’s Conjecture [http://aperiodical.com/2013/01/open-season-singmasters-conjecture/] * Please consider hosting the Carnival of Mathematics [http://aperiodical.com/carnival-of-mathematics/] * Mysterious upcoming project – watch this space As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email to root@aperiodical.com [root@aperiodical.com] or through our new, streamlined sending-something-in form [http://aperiodical.com/submit/].

Aperiodcast – Christiansmas Eve 2013

After two months we’ve finally done another podcast! We completely forgot even the most rudimentary things about how to do a podcast. Sorry. In this episode, we talked about: * Mathematical Christmas cracker jokes [http://aperiodical.com/2012/12/mathematical-christmas-cracker-jokes/] * Fractal Christmas trees [http://aperiodical.com/2012/12/fractal-christmas-trees-your-photos/] * Posts from MathsJam speakers – Tom Button on Radii of Polyhedra [http://aperiodical.com/2012/12/radii-of-polyhedra/] and Phil Harvey on AS Results and Batting Averages [http://aperiodical.com/2013/01/as-maths-results-and-batting-averages/] * The Aperiodical’s Mathematical Survey [http://survey.aperiodical.com/] * Carnival of Mathematics 94 [http://aperiodical.com/2013/01/carnival-of-mathematics-94/] As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email to root@aperiodical.com [root@aperiodical.com] or through our new, streamlined sending-something-in form [http://aperiodical.com/submit/]. If you’ve got some ideas for how we can do a better podcast, we’d be particularly keen to hear from you.

Aperiodcast – MathsJam 2012!

We took the opportunity of us all being in the same small slice of space and time (MathsJam, last weekend) to record another episode of our continuing audio part-work, The Aperiodcast. We talked about: * Christian’s Recreational Maths Seminar [http://aperiodical.com/2012/11/recreational-maths-seminar-picture-hanging-puzzles/] * Dara O Briain: School of Hard Sums to return; maths students sought to take part [http://aperiodical.com/2012/11/dara-o-briain-school-of-hard-sums-to-return-maths-students-sought-to-take-part/] * Matt Parker’s Twitter Puzzle – 12th Nov [http://aperiodical.com/2012/11/matt-parkers-twitter-puzzle-12th-nov/] * John McKenna’s helpful comment about our title font [http://aperiodical.com/2012/10/aperiodcast-21102012/#comment-2521] As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email at root@aperiodical.com [root@aperiodical.com], our twitter @aperiodical [http://twitter.com/aperiodical], or whatever means you can think of to get in contact with us.

Aperiodcast – 21/10/2012

Here’s another episode of our irregular podcast about what’s been happening on the site. This time, we talked about: * Advances in pure nonsense [http://aperiodical.com/2012/10/advances-in-pure-nonsense/] * Robert Schneider, Mathematical Musician/Musical Mathematician [http://aperiodical.com/2012/09/robert-schneider-mathematical-musicianmusical-mathematician/] * #MTT2K: Teachers critique Khan Academy [http://aperiodical.com/2012/09/mtt2k-teachers-critique-khan-academ/] * Surds: what are they good for? [http://travels.aperiodical.com/2012/10/surds-what-are-they-good-for.html] * Calculus of the Nervous System [http://aperiodical.com/2012/09/calculus-of-the-nervous-system/] * The new fonts on the site * Christian’s new Aperiodical Round Up [http://aperiodical.com/2012/09/aperiodical-round-up-7/] and Interesting Esoterica Summation [http://aperiodical.com/2012/10/interesting-esoterica-summation-volume-5/] * Puzzlebomb October 2012 [http://aperiodical.com/2012/10/puzzlebomb-october-2012/] Christian apologises for the poor sound quality, an unavoidable consequence of being at the family home for the weekend without a proper microphone. As always, we’re keen to hear about your mathematical exploits either by email at root@aperiodical.com [root@aperiodical.com], our twitter @aperiodical [http://twitter.com/aperiodical], or whatever means you can think of to get in contact with us.