Maths is a fickle world. Stay à la mode with our guide to the latest trends.
HOT This shape
Behold! A square. Not sure why we’ve decided that the ‘straight’ part of ‘straight lines’ isn’t important anymore but OK boomer.
NOT Projectile motion problems
This winter, we’re exclusively covering our bathrooms with keyhole shapes. Who’d live in a house like this…?
HOT Being outraged at the Nobel prize
Secretly you are all apoplectic your ChatGPT blog post wasn’t nominated.
NOT Writing papers which qualify
Getting your code to compile. That’s it. That’s the real Nobel prize.
HOT Going on More or Less to talk about maths
Maths people agreeing agreeably with maths people. In terms of peak radio, it’s not exactly Johnnie Walker’s Sounds of the Seventies… but what is?
NOT Going on GB News to talk about maths
But I guess the money’s good, right? Right?
HOT Overnight temperatures on 10 October
No need to worry about putting the heating on tonight. Thanks, BBC Weather!
NOT Sanity-checking your supplier’s data before publishing it everywhere
The Met Office would never have given such dodgy data.
HOT -T-O-G-O
Mathematicians like a well-defined dance
HOT Taking long exposures of the sky and telling your friends you saw the northern lights
Nothing to do with maths, it’s just literally all our group chats right now.
NOT The Northern Lights trilogy
Did Mick Herron write it? No? Then I’m not reading it.
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