Welcome to Carnival of Mathematics issue 249! Before we dive into our monthly assortment of maths, it's customary to provide some fasci...

 I make no claims to be a statistician (though I recently read a textbook* on Bayesian probability from cover to cover) and I apologise for ...

I've reconstructed a puzzle which I remember being amused by when I came across it in a school textbook. We expect that if you add a qua...

 Earlier this week, on 24 February,  my Wordle streak of over 200 successes came to a sad end. (For those who don't know the game, each ...

 This isn't really maths (except in so far as all computing is maths) but I am going to vent a couple of frustrations regarding laptops....

 I have a horrible feeling that a long time ago I believed, and perhaps even tried ti persuade others, that mathematics is different from ot...

 I'm delighted to host for the second time the monthly Carnival of Mathematics for August 2023.  Information about the Carnival and link...