All Squared

Christian Perfect, Katie Steckles
  • 0.0 (0)
  • NATURAL SCIENCES
All Squared

A roundup of what's attracting attention over at The Aperiodical with Christian Perfect, Peter Rowlett and Katie Steckles. Find out what posts are attracting the attention of our readers, causing comment or piquing our interest this week. The Aperiodical is a mathematics magazine/blog aimed at people interested in mathematics who want to read stuff. We post news stories related to maths, opinion pieces, interesting things we’ve found, accounts of monthly MathsJams, maths videos, and feature articles, as well as posts from our own blogs. We also host the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival.

Episodes

  1. 14/01/2014

    All Squared, Number 11 – Maths Jam

    MathsJam is an annual conference in the UK, and a monthly night in pubs around the world, organised respectively by mathematician and juggler Colin Wright, and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. We cornered Matt and Colin at the MathsJam conference last November, and talked to them for just over half an hour about the conference, the…

    36 min

  2. 31/10/2013

    All Squared, Number 10: Maths journalism

    Evelyn Lamb is a professional mathematician who has taken up journalism on the side. She received the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship last year, and spent the summer writing for the magazine Scientific American. We talked to her about maths journalism, the challenges involved in making advances accessible to a wider audience, and the differences between blogging and…

    26 min

  3. 14/10/2013

    All Squared, Number 9: Miscellanea with CP and Cushing

    We have an unusual All Squared podcast for you this time. My good friend David Cushing has been asking to do a podcast for absolutely ages. We couldn’t decide on a single topic to talk about, so instead I suggested we just sit down and chat about maths in general, like we do when there isn’t…

    52 min

  4. 06/10/2013

    All Squared, Number 8: Martin Gardner (Colm Mulcahy part 2)

    This is the second and final part of our interview with Colm Mulcahy. Last week we talked about card magic; in this part we moved on to the subject of Martin Gardner and the gatherings of interesting people associated with his name. We’ve tacked on some blather we recorded about the British Science Festival in…

    25 min

  5. 29/09/2013

    All Squared, Number 7: Card Magic (Colm Mulcahy part 1)

    Colm Mulcahy is an original Aperiodical contributor (Aperiodicontributor?) and friend of the site. He’s spent the last year and a bit writing his new book, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects. It came out a few weeks ago, so we thought it was a good opportunity to talk to him and find out just what’s so…

    29 min

  6. 18/05/2013

    All Squared, Number 6: Favourite maths books (part 2)

    This number of the All Squared podcast contains the final third of our interview with the inestimable David Singmaster, and then a bit from CP about his favourite book, “A treatise on practical arithmetic, with book-keeping by single entry“, by William Tinwell. The first part of the interview, and plenty of links to go with…

    28 min

  7. 11/05/2013

    All Squared, Number 5: Favourite maths books (part 1)

    Good maths books are simultaneously plentiful and rare. While there are a few classics almost everyone knows about and has copies of (Gardner, Hardy, etc.), the trade in lesser-known maths books is considerably less well-organised. Very few bookshops have well-stocked maths sections, and insipid pop maths books dominate. Unless you hear about a good maths…

    30 min

  8. 09/04/2013

    All Squared, Number 4: How interesting!

    It’s a repeat booking for the Festival of the Spoken Nerd in number 4 (or 16 if you belong to Team All Squared) of our podcast. Standup mathematician Matt Parker joined us to talk about interesting coincidences. Here are some links to the things we referred to in the podcast, along with some bonus extras: The…

    36 min

  9. 14/03/2013

    All Squared, Number 3: As Easy As…

    Remember, remember, The fourteenth of March. While the previous number of All Squared failed to achieve topicality by appearing several weeks after the event it was about, this time we’ve hit the nail bang on the head with a podcast all about π day… on π day! We chatted to Festival of the Spoken Nerd’s Steve Mould about remembering π…

    29 min

  10. 05/03/2013

    All Squared, Number 2 – Pancake formula

    Here’s the second edition of our new podcast, All Squared. This time we talked to Dr Andrew Taylor, PhD, about nonsense formulas in the news. In particular, since we recorded very close to pancake day, we took a close look at the various “formulas for the perfect pancake” printed in UK newspapers. Here are some links…

    30 min

  11. 24/02/2013

    All Squared, Number 1: Maths out loud

    We’ve been quietly making plans and gathering material for a new project over the past couple of weeks, after noticing that there’s an unusual paucity of maths podcasts at the moment. Well, that exciting new project is now happening, and it’s a half-hour podcast featuring maths, guests, puzzles and links from the internet. It’s called…

    27 min
  • 11 Episodes

About

A roundup of what's attracting attention over at The Aperiodical with Christian Perfect, Peter Rowlett and Katie Steckles. Find out what posts are attracting the attention of our readers, causing comment or piquing our interest this week. The Aperiodical is a mathematics magazine/blog aimed at people interested in mathematics who want to read stuff. We post news stories related to maths, opinion pieces, interesting things we’ve found, accounts of monthly MathsJams, maths videos, and feature articles, as well as posts from our own blogs. We also host the Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging carnival.

Information

  • Creator
    Christian Perfect, Katie Steckles
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2014
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Christian Perfect, Peter Rowlett and Katie Steckles
  • Show Website
    All Squared

To listen to explicit episodes, sign in.

Stay up to date with this show

Sign in or sign up to follow shows, save episodes and get the latest updates.
Select a country or region

Africa, Middle East, and India

Asia Pacific

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

The United States and Canada