Ah, it was more ‘here’s a thing I’m up to’, it wasn’t streamed or recorded. I guess people can ask me to give it again - I have another booking to do it to another local group later this year.

Mathematical Objects: Low bridge sign with Adam Townsend A conversation about mathematics inspired by a low bridge sign. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Adam Townsend. The plot discussed around 11 minutes and various oth…

Enjoyed hearing @standupmaths.bsky.social bring this up - @adamtownsend.bsky.social gave a really fun deep dive of the bridge sign story on our podcast aperiodical.com/2024/09/math...

Games and their analysis from prehistory to today, Peter Rowlett, Sheffield Hallam University. Tomb wall illustration of an Egyptian queen playing a board game.

I’m on my way to give a talk to Sheffield U3A’s Science & Technology Group, about board games through the ages with a bit of game theory thrown in.

In London for this. Looking forward to meeting readers, authors and reviewers of The Mathematical Gazette.

First inside pages of the issue, showing the editorial board, information about the journal and the opening of the editorial.

The first issue of The Mathematical Gazette with me as Editor has arrived in the post!

Non-subscribers can read my editorial (and some other papers in this issue) for free at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Editors of The Mathematical Gazette, 1894-2025. Table A1 in the linked paper.

The Gazette has been continuously published since 1894. A history was published in 1996 and now, 30 years later, I'm really pleased my student Amelia Curran has written a new history covering 1894-2025.
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The Mathematical Gazette Volume 110, Issue 577 of The Mathematical Gazette

The Gazette focuses on mathematical content for teachers at the upper end of secondary school and early stage university. This issue contains articles on approximating pi by measuring a cooling rod, the path taken by a turning die, how to take square roots of matrices, and much more.

A time of change Published in The Mathematical Gazette (Vol. 110, No. 577, 2026)

My first issue of The Mathematical Gazette as editor has been published!

My editorial talks about some of the many changes that the journal and I have been through since the last issue.
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10 years of the “Is this prime?” game – time to analyse more results Can you believe it’s been 10 years since I made the “Is this prime?” game? I sort of can, because I set myself a reminder about it in my calendar. Back in 2016, the game had been …

10 years after he created it, Christian Lawson-Perfect offers some analysis of the Is this prime? game.

Topic of the week in the finitegroup.co.uk Discord - here @ayliean.bsky.social explains @wordle-tetris.bsky.social.

This amused me because we’d had a conversation in the Finite Group Discord where I’d asked @mscroggs.co.uk how it worked framed around why had it put the L upright, then I saw your cries for it to rotate!

Brass for Brain: Lord Kelvin and tide prediction Published in BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2014)

Ooo, I think I wrote a bit about that once for the BSHM journal. I don’t remember what I wrote exactly, it was a write up of a Raymond Flood talk that I was asked to report. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is excellent. Do you have a source for the image?

Mathematical Objects: A Norbert Wiener Story A conversation about mathematics inspired by a piece of folklore. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

New podcast episode! To round of season 9 of our Mathematical Objects, @steckl.es and I enjoy chewing over the folklore that developed around the absent-minded professor caricature.

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My son (10)’s spelling homework this week was words ending “cial” or “tial”. One of them was “artificial”. I asked if he knows what it means. He said “it’s the A in AI. It means fake”.

A brief history of The Mathematical Gazette: thirty years later This article revisits the history of The Mathematical Gazette, extending earlier accounts by examining developments since the publication of Michael Dampier’s ‘The Mathematical Gazette: a brief his...

A student of mine has been investigating the history of the journal I'm now editing.

She reviewed a previous history published in 1996, and covered the intervening period by interviewing the last two editors and the production editor.

The resulting paper is now published online.

I really enjoyed listening to your conversation with @nhoskee.bsky.social. This podcast episode was thought provoking and insightful.

Thanks! cc @steckl.es

Mathematics of life Reaching the top While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to bring strategy into it, says mathematician Peter Rowlett

Pick up a copy of New Scientist this weekend, or go to the website (subscription or via your library), and you’ll find me writing about Snakes and Ladders and analysis of games of chance.

Mathematical Objects: Certified Mathematical Object sticker with Chris Nho A conversation about mathematics and communicating mathematics inspired by a ‘Certified Mathematical Object’ sticker. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest C…

New podcast episode! @steckl.es and I have an interesting chat about maths, what it is, and how to communicate that, with @nhoskee.bsky.social inspired by the Public Math 'certified mathematical object' stickers.

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A call for people to write for The Mathematical Gazette, and a plea for volunteers to peer review, from @amiemathematics.bsky.social. It's the journal I edit, behind the scenes we're getting ready to publish my first issue!

See what his teacher makes of e.π^e. 🤣

Haha, it’s a page from last year’s KS2 SATS paper.

Write a number in the box to make this correct. 3/5 < box over 100 < 0.7

What’s your answer here?

My son got it from school. He said 65. Very boring! I was wondering about 20π.

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Mathematical Objects: A taxicab A conversation about mathematics inspired by a taxicab. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.

New podcast episode! @steckl.es tells me about the maths of taxicabs.

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I thought it was the % of people who rated themselves 4 or 5, although I’m not clear on that or what they were rating on. I haven’t dug through the report, but what I saw wasn’t huge on the technical detail.

One is a rating on a likert scale, the other is a score for ability which seems to be based on your maths qualifications and how you did on some questions. I wonder whether people answering knew ‘4’ means ‘I will score “high” on your test’, or whether they are totally different things.