I haven't watched the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit , but (prompted by a review in Private Eye ) I've just read Walter Tevi...

  Peter M. Neumann (1940-2020) (Photo by Bert Seghers, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) A very sad post - the mathematician Peter M. Neuman...

 So over the last few weeks I have performed a couple of mathematical magic tricks which I have put on my Youtube channel. As part of the 24...

The mathematician John Horton Conway died just over a week ago. (I recommend Siobhan Roberts's biography Genius at Play .)  I' inten...

I' am one of these annoying people who loves self-reference.  I had a sign saying "Why can't anyone these days do anything prop...

I have always underestimated the interest value of the Tower of Hanoi problem.  If you don;t remember the puzzle, there are three positions ...

Another New Year, another resolution to write more blog posts.  We'll see. A mathematician delivering the Royal Institution Christmas ...