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 confe

All Squared, Number 10: Maths journalism

Oct 31st, 2013 26m 9s

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 journali

All Squared, Number 9: Miscellanea with CP and Cushing

Oct 14th, 2013 52m 20s

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 abo

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

Oct 6th, 2013 24m 49s

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 tacke

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

Sep 29th, 2013 29m 26s

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 thoug

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

May 18th, 2013 28m 12s

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

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

May 11th, 2013 30m 29s

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 boo

All Squared, Number 4: How interesting!

Apr 9th, 2013 36m 18s

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 thing

All Squared, Number 3: As Easy As…

Mar 14th, 2013 28m 40s

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

All Squared, Number 2 – Pancake formula

Mar 5th, 2013 29m 49s

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 “formu

All Squared, Number 1: Maths out loud

Feb 24th, 2013 26m 43s

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

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