A short update from Katie and Peter.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by an old textbook, Mathematics in Theory and Practice, edited by Warwick Sawyer. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a scone. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Sophie Maclean. Photo CC BY-SA 2.0 by AlphaBy Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the Joukowsky aerofoil. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a guitar. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Sam Hartburn.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a 1960s game designed to teach set theory. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. On-Sets: A Vintage Set Theory Game by Peter Rowlett is free to read in Math Horizons.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics and literature inspired by a book. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett with special guest Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Battenberg cake. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the new aperiodic monotile. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Chaim Goodman-Strauss. The paper announcing the discovery is An aperiodic monotile by David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. Chaim was recording from MoMath in New York, whi…

A conversation about mathematics inspired by some fingers. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Ben Orlin. Ben’s new book is Math Games with Bad Drawings.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the game Quarto. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a slinky. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the nodal cubic. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. We go closer to the cutting edge of research than usual in this chat with Angela Tabiri about her PhD research.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the PageRank algorithm. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a joke. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Bec Hill.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a hairy ball. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a superegg. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Hannah Fry.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematical jokes, humour and folklore inspired by a sheep, at least one side of which is black. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. The jokes sent to Peter on Twitter that we mention can be found in the replies to this tweet. Your favourite maths jokes please. I thank you. — Peter Rowlett (@peterrowlett) June 14, 2…

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a plate of biscuits. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Alison Kiddle. What do you notice? What do you wonder? Alison’s Noticing and wondering page. We also mentioned A Problem Squared Episode 014 = Final Cheese Drama and Quick-Fire-O-Rama. You can see Peter’s kitchen floor…

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Spirograph set. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Katie’s Spirograph GeoGebra file.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a balancing bird. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Alom Shaha. Alom’s video and template about the balancing bird. Photo by Alom Shaha.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by UUID 0412a969-5b27-4c28-9662-85ef2c201e0c. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by an auctioneer’s hammer. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Tim Harford. Image by Arek Socha from PixabayBy Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by cards from the game Dobble. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. You can read more about Katie’s adventures in golfing combinatorics.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by an arbelos. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Catriona Agg. Catriona mentions this proof without words, which is taken from Proof Without Words: The Area of an Arbelos by Roger B. Nelsen in Mathematics Magazine. Arbelos by Catriona Agg…

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a box of Christmas crackers. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Merry Christmas!By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by an Enigma machine. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Tom Briggs.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by some solids of constant width. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a ball of wool (yarn). Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Pat Ashforth.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a lottery machine. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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!By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a hat. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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…

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a vehicle. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Christopher Danielson.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Möbius band. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a mandala. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Hana Ayoob. Mandala by Hana AyoobBy Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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 …

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Rubik’s Cube. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a set of D&D dice. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

Katie and Peter give a little update on the podcast, life in lockdown and the upcoming season/series 3.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about combinatorics, the mathematics of counting, inspired by a robot caterpillar. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about the mathematics of chemistry inspired by a pencil, plus a chat about approximation. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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!).By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

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.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the game Ox Blocks. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a Correntator, a mechanical adding machine. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Christian Lawson-Perfect.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by the pseudorhombicuboctahedron. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett

A conversation about mathematics inspired by a pair of skipping ropes. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett