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Mathematical Objects

34 Episodes

21 minutes | a month ago
Mathematical Objects: Christmas crackers
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a box of Christmas crackers. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Merry Christmas!
37 minutes | a month ago
Mathematical Objects: Enigma machine with Tom Briggs
A conversation about mathematics inspired by an Enigma machine. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Tom Briggs.
11 minutes | 2 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Solids of constant width
A conversation about mathematics inspired by some solids of constant width. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
30 minutes | 2 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Ball of wool with Pat Ashforth
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a ball of wool (yarn). Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Pat Ashforth.
25 minutes | 3 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Lottery machine
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a lottery machine. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
27 minutes | 3 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Klein bottle with Matthew Scroggs
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Klein bottle and Mathsteroids. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Matthew Scroggs. Play Mathsteriods!
32 minutes | 4 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Hundred square with Susan Okereke
A conversation about mathematics and education inspired by a hundred square. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Susan Okereke. In the episode, we mentioned the original Prime Climb colouring sheet and Peter’s Prime Climb colouring sheet on GitHub as drawing-primes.
14 minutes | 5 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Twenty Pence coin
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Twenty Pence coin. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. @stecks Despite sounding like French name, Franz Reuleaux was German (I only 'discovered' that when I read what I wrote about him some years ago.)— Pat Ashforth (@matheknitician) August 29, 2020
32 minutes | 5 months ago
Mathematical Objects: A vehicle with Christopher Danielson
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a vehicle. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Christopher Danielson.
17 minutes | 6 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Möbius band
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Möbius band. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
16 minutes | 6 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Mandala with Hana Ayoob
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a mandala. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Hana Ayoob. Mandala by Hana Ayoob
16 minutes | 7 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Acoustic mirrors with James Grime
A conversation about mathematics inspired by acoustic mirrors. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest James Grime. Image: WW1 Acoustic Mirror, Kilnsea; cc-by-sa/2.0 – © Paul Glazzard.
18 minutes | 7 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Number block cubes
A conversation about mathematics inspired by number block cubes/snap cubes. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Peter’s blog post: Mathematical play with young children. Mike Lawler’s three-tweet thread of more advanced ideas starts here: (1/3) Here are some fun arithmetic basics I did with my kids using snap cubes. The first is showing how dividing fractions works: https://t.co/VXYNVuDFLU— Mike Lawler (@mikeandallie) May 9, 2020
22 minutes | 8 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Rubik’s Cube
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Rubik’s Cube. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
20 minutes | 8 months ago
Mathematical Objects: D&D Dice
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a set of D&D dice. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
4 minutes | 8 months ago
Mathematical Objects: Season 3 ‘trailer’
Katie and Peter give a little update on the podcast, life in lockdown and the upcoming season/series 3.
17 minutes | a year ago
Mathematical Objects: Robot caterpillar
A conversation about combinatorics, the mathematics of counting, inspired by a robot caterpillar. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
20 minutes | a year ago
Mathematical Objects: Pencil
A conversation about the mathematics of chemistry inspired by a pencil, plus a chat about approximation. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
14 minutes | a year ago
Mathematical Objects: Romanesco Broccoli
A conversation about mathematics including fractals inspired by a Romanesco Broccoli. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, idea suggested by John Read (thanks John!).
16 minutes | a year ago
Mathematical Objects: A deck of Set cards
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a deck of Set cards. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. We mentioned‬ an implementation of Set in Python by Ben Nuttall and a retro NES version by Katie.
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