Katie Steckles
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Hunting the Snark
A while ago I wrote about zero-player games, including the famous Game of Life created by mathematician John Conway. If you are confused because you thought the Game of Life was a board game where you put a tiny peg character in a car and drive it around a board, here is a quick reminder of how the mathematical Game of Life works. Read more
Maths That Rings a Bell
If you have spent any time in the English countryside, you may have heard the sounds of bellringers merrily chiming from a nearby church tower – a peculiarly British pursuit in which, given a set of bells tuned to different notes and sufficiently skilled bellringers, a variety of tunes can be performed. But is there a mathematical aspect to bellringing too? Read more