Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 11hWould you be able to put a FREE Japanese language edition of The Mathematicians' Library to good use? I'll send it out to the first person who gives me a good reason why they should have it, and I'll even cover postage (anywhere the UK). 1/n 228
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 27/09/2026My Polish language copy of *The Mathematicians' Library* will soon be winging its way to a school in Leicestershire because a maths teacher thought it'd be great for some of their students with Polish whose first language is Polish! This is exactly the kind of use I'd hoped these non-English... 162
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 26/09/2026I've got one copy of *The Mathematicians' Library* to give away in each of four languages: Polish, German, Japanese, and Spanish. I'm offering them for free (including UK postage) & I'd like them to go somewhere that'd make good use of them. If you think *your* organisation or group would... 277
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Maths Week England @mathsweekengland24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Announcing the Maths Week England Library Project! Do you—or someone you know—work with a library in England? This autumn, MathsWorldUK is offering a prize package of favourite popular maths books. Libraries that take part in Maths Week England can enter here: support@mathsweekengland.co.uk. 102
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 25/09/2026Today's main procrastinatory device was adding a page for Euclid's Elements to The Stack: library.mathsy.space/books/euclid... #MathsToday #History #Maths #Bookslibrary.mathsy.spaceThe Elements - Companion 003
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 25/09/2026This week in #TenuousAppearances, I notice that the back of my head is visible in a photo on page 5 of the June 2026 issue of @cilip.bsky.social RPG's Post-Lib journal: cdn.ymaws.com/oldsite-ym.c...cdn.ymaws.com 010
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 25/09/2026"If you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 'fif-teen miles to the...'" 100
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk · 24/09/2026New #job Museum Learning Manager at The Arbib Education Trust #SouthEast Apply by 2 November 2026 Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/museum-... #GEMJobs #MuseumLearningJobs #MuseumJobs #Education #SouthEastJobsgem.org.ukMuseum Learning Manager - GEMDo you believe museums and schools should work more closely together? Do you combine creativity with organisational skills and the ability to work across the curriculum? We are looking for […] 002
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 22/09/2026I thoroughly enjoyed my stint as @prensemble.bsky.social 's sound tech at @mathsworld.com last night. They sounded GREAT despite my best efforts! #Maths #Music #MathsToday 022
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 21/09/2026I LIKE THE POPE THE POPE'S GOT NOTES ON POLYTOPES This is going to be stuck in my head for the next few days AGAIN because I've seen @prensemble.bsky.social play AGAIN and they were brilliant AGAIN. #MathsToday 140
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 21/09/2026"We're sorry you experienced our Terrible Service. Here's a refund in the form of a voucher that can only be spent on more of our Terrible Service." No. 011
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Richard Elwes @richardelwes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Puzzles, Stories, and Very Large Numbers: Complementary approaches to mathematical engagement". My article in the latest issue of "Mathematics Competitions" applies Freeman Dyson's classification of mathematicians into "Birds" and "Frogs" to mathematical engagement... www.wfnmc.org/Journal/Jour...wfnmc.org 121
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 21/09/2026Today in "where's Tommy‽" - I'm in London for tonight's @prensemble.bsky.social gig at @mathsworld.com - I've taken the opportunity to pick up one of a few boxes of books (*The Mathematicians' Library*, of course) I left at the Royal Institution. If anyone wants a signed copy and is in Central... 110
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 19/09/2026Does anyone know where my Crybaby pedal is? I haven't seen it in years, but I'm pretty sure things just can't pop out of existence. 030
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026Oo, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day, or as we call it in Dorset, "Talk Day". 031
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Hannah R @missradders.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A thread on cinema. Answer with one letter and one number. eg C3 Part 1: When is it time to shut the hell up in the cinema: A) when the adverts start B) when the trailers start C) when the film starts 1/ 2 1433
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 14/09/2026Hey, you! Give this a 'like' if you're coming, and whether you're coming or not a repost would be a great way to show your support! 011
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 12/09/2026For the last three days I've been at the @gem.org.uk conference at #BletchleyPark. As always, it was brilliant, interesting, inspiring, and massively tiring. Following a big sleep, my mind was still whirring and I've written up some thoughts: tommaths.blogspot.comtommaths.blogspot.com◼️ Tom⇒mathsMaths educator with many and varied interests. Guitarist, writer, reader, human being. Interested in freelance opportunities, or just a chat. 120
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026Dorset people! I'm doing my first solo gig in 20+ years at the Dry Dock, Weymouth tomorrow from 6:30pm. Come along! 003
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 11/09/2026To my #maths #teacher friends who are also on #LinkedIn, can I ask a favour? My cousin's started a PGCE & I've been telling him the best CPD I've had has not been through the schools I've worked at, but through fantastic people I've met at dedicated maths teacher events. Introduce yourselves?linkedin.com#maths #teachers | Thomas K. Briggs, AMIMATo the many fabulous #maths #teachers I know here: My cousin* Gareth Johnson has just started a PGCE and I've been telling him that the best professional development I've had as a maths teacher has b... 113
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 09/09/2026I thought Byrne's 1847 treatment of Euclid's Elements was pretty cool, but today I learned that @chethamslibrary.bsky.social in Manchester have an early English translation from 1579 that has fold-out flaps, making it one of the earliest pop-up books in English? Why aren't they... #MathsToday 🏛️🎓 151
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 09/09/2026I've just been reminded of something I said in a talk a few years ago: If (as a museum, gallery, heritage site, etc) you have a STEM offer that doesn't involve M, then you don't have a STEM offer. 030
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In a little museum in Aguïmes, Gran Canaria and spotted some images of measurement from some centuries ago. 132
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 09/09/2026Thanks to @gregjenner.bsky.social for a fab discussion at #GEM26 He said some interesting things about history & comedy (and historians and comedians) that closely match my experiences of maths (and mathematicians). History & maths go together SO well. How do we utilise that more often? 🏛️🎓 240
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026. @teakayb.mathsy.space I saw this poem and thought of you (re maths popping up in interesting places). From Robert Frost’s Meeting and Passing: 121
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 09/09/2026In case there's anyone at #GEM26 who's also on Bluesky and looking for somewhere to discuss what's going on at this year's conference... 1. Pin this feed & check it regularly: bsky.app/profile/did:... 2. Post to it by including "🏛️🎓" in a post (it'll pick up some other keywords too) @gem.org.uk 000
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 09/09/2026Day 1 of @gem.org.uk conference 2026 has kicked off. This year's theme is "Learning is Digital?" with a very deliberate question mark. #GEM26 🏛️🎓 101
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/202612yo: "I was thinking about graphs at school, during English." 132
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 07/09/2026It's @gem.org.uk conference week! This year it's at my old haunt, #BletchleyPark! 🏛️🎓 001
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 06/09/2026I got today's Variant 1 maths anagram in 12 seconds! How fast are you? Test your skills at puzzles.mathsy.spacepuzzles.mathsy.spaceDaily Maths Puzzles | puzzles.mathsy.space 201
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 05/09/2026Unsurprisingly, there's a lot of opinion flying around at the moment about map projections (including comparative pros and cons). If you're interested in reading about the history of maps and maps projections I can wholly recommend Paulina Rowinska's Mapmatics:static.klipy.comWorld Map: Real Size ComparisonAlt: On a world map, the sizes of countries oscillate between their relative sizes on a Mercator map and their relative sizes in the real world, demonstrating one of the weaknesses of this map projection (it has strengths, too). 185
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 05/09/2026I got today's Variant 1 maths anagram in 10 seconds! How fast are you? Test your skills at puzzles.mathsy.space #MathsTodaypuzzles.mathsy.spaceDaily Maths Puzzles | puzzles.mathsy.space 000
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 04/09/2026This Finnish guy has been teaching himself Sumerian, and sent a cuneiform tablet to the British Museum to check his progress. They just emailed him that they've sent him something in the post. I'm now thrilled and excited for a total stranger! Clay tablet mail! www.reddit.com/r/Cuneiform/... 11554901487
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 05/09/2026Clifford the Big Red Dog (the movie): there are many things wrong with this movie so far, but... Jack Whitehall (who is English) is putting on an American accent for the movie, in which he is an uncle looking after his (American accent) niece, for her mum, his sister, who has an... English accent. 120
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 01/09/2026I got today's Variant 1 maths anagram in 18 seconds! How fast are you? Test your skills at puzzles.mathsy.spacepuzzles.mathsy.spaceDaily Maths Puzzles | puzzles.mathsy.space 100
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 01/09/2026Next up in an ongoing if irregular series of *Tom making an incomplete fool of himself in freely accessible media*, I chat to @steckl.es in an episode of the @tmip.bsky.social podcast! #Talking #Maths #InPublic #podcast 🏛️🎓 #MathsInMuseums #Museums #Education #MathsTodaytalkingmathsinpublic.ukTalking Maths In Public - Podcast 054
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 01/09/2026Just the one book *finished* in August, according to my @the.storygraph wrap-up, but bits of five books read altogether. Some might say I should focus more? #books #reading 111
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 01/09/2026I just stumbled upon the fact that an anagram of "Descartes" is "set scared". 020
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 31/08/2026As a #StarWars nerd I think I'm supposed to post things like this excitedly as it happens, but I got distracted and here we are 11 days later. (*This* order 66 was for a pot of tea and a cherry scone, which was lovely). 140
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 30/08/2026Who's booked tickets for the Pseudorandom Ensemble gig? 21st September 2026, 18:15, £8, MathsWorld UK (London's Southbank) (I'll be there!) #LiveMusic #maths 123
Reposted by Tommaths (he/him)Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 27/08/2026I've been experimenting with some web stuff recently, and what with the impending start of a new school year I was inspired to try something that might have some use as a 'daily settler' sort of thing: puzzles.mathsy.spacepuzzles.mathsy.spaceDaily Maths Puzzles | puzzles.mathsy.space 241
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 27/08/2026I've been experimenting with some web stuff recently, and what with the impending start of a new school year I was inspired to try something that might have some use as a 'daily settler' sort of thing: puzzles.mathsy.spacepuzzles.mathsy.spaceDaily Maths Puzzles | puzzles.mathsy.space 241
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 24/08/2026I've worked hard to get past feeling that "I can't do #art" because the #maths version of it is so incredibly damaging & I don't want to be a hypocrite when I ask people to stop. Besides: 1) You don't have to be 'good' at something to engage with it positively. 2) It's not an either/or situation. 392
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 23/08/20263 years ago: a bunch of #maths teachers visited an interactive exhibition at the Tate Modern. We investigated mathematical ideas that existed within the installation. Later, we explored some of the maths in the galleries & then over the river at St Paul's! Would love to do something this again! 🏛️🎓 161
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 22/08/2026I've been adding some info and links to interactives to the Principia page in The Mathematicians' Library: The Stacks. I'm still trying to get my head around what sort of thing will be on each book's page. After a lot of thinking and not-doing, I just _did_. library.mathsy.space/books/newton...library.mathsy.spacePhilosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Companion 010
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 22/08/2026I'm visiting Mum and took the chance to drop in on my old friend Meg, too: tommaths.blogspot.com/2025/08/math... #Maths #Historytommaths.blogspot.comMaths in Museums: Roaring Meg at Goodrich CastleExplore the maths behind Civil War mortar 'Roaring Meg' at Goodrich Castle: angles, trajectories, and how a museum object reveals mathematical ideas 023
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 22/08/2026I teased that I'd received a fantastic mathematical gift, and this is it! The soroban (Japanese abacus) has been a common calculation aid in Japan for centuries, and is still a popular education aid and cognitive training tool. This one was... 130