If I've achieved nothing else in my life, you can't say I didn't occasionally blog about maths.
Can't believe it's been 10 years. Feels like both forever and no time at all. twitter.com/aperiodical/st…
My favourite bits on The Aperiodical that I was responsible for:
1) It all started with a column on @Samuel_Hansen's blog, The Internet Maths Aperiodical - a collection of random maths stuff I'd seen. I moved those over to aperiodical.com: aperiodical.com/category/colum…
2) The integer sequence reviews I did with @TweetsofCushing: aperiodical.com/category/colum…. Pure delight! Completely self-indulgent, although it led to..
.. a @numberphile video!
youtube.com/watch?v=VDD6FD…
We weren't prepared for how seriously people took the competition, and I think fiddling the winner so it'd fit on a trophy might have been the wrong thing to do
3) The #BigMathOff: aperiodical.com/category/the-b…
Plan: get people to tell me fun maths facts.
Result: I can call @ch_nira The World's Most Interesting Mathematician and everyone else goes along with it?
4) This gif, on the "Riemann hypothesis not proved" post, which continued to get a steady stream of attention for several years.
aperiodical.com/2015/11/rieman…
5) The Nonsense Formula Disapprove-o-Matic 3000, which would be wheeled into action whenever the words "formula for the perfect ..." appeared in a newspaper.
It hasn't disapproved of anything in a while, but it is ready and waiting aperiodical.com/?s=disapprove-…
6) My post on the lullaby sequence. @aap03102 said "The way Christian tells this is completely charming". I don't think I'll do any better than that.
aperiodical.com/2021/07/a-lull…
But those are just the things I did. The thing I'm most proud of is the huge gang of other people who have used the site to share their own fun maths over the years, and the connections it's helped to make.
I don't have much time to write my own stuff these days, but I hope the site keeps going as a place for keen maths fans to put stuff and have a load of other maths fans see it.