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@Ayliean

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Mathemactivist and Craftamatician, constantly trying to unleash the beauty of Maths for all to see! Also a tortoise lover. (she/her)

Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined August 2012
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5 years
Made up a set of rules and rolled some dice to decide how this plant would grow. I never did get that five of a kind, as expected, but I was still hopeful! 🌱🍀🌿
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2 years
Using straight lines to make curves… Maths once again bending the rules beautifully✨
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2 years
Dividing a circle into 7 equal area slices 🍕 Equality in Maths is just beauuutiful 💗
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1 year
A celebration of the shiny new ✨aperiodic mono-tile✨ Maths is definitely not done yet!
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1 year
Oh Pascal you rascal!
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3 years
Maths Art for when your brain is on low power mode 🔋✨
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2 years
Hello to all the new people, let me recap… …I’m just a Mathematician who likes to draw straight lines :)
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2 years
I’m not a teacher anymore. I loved my teaching career so much - it kept my life & heart full for a decade Maths Education is still the most important thing I can do for the world right now, just not from a classroom! It’s scary, and I hope you can continue to support me 💗
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3 years
Happy Tau Day! Classic sine wave spaghetti project in praise of Tau 🙌✨ P.s. if I can get 40 more followers today I’ll have Tau thousand (a τ-sand) followers 🥰 tell your friends!
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2 years
On today’s menu: The Cairo Pentagonal Tiling 🌸 It pairs perfectly with the Snub Quadrille :)
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1 year
Happy Fibonacci New Year 1/1/23 ✨ UK and negative time zones there’s still time to convince your friends to do a Mathematically apt countdown! 🌍
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2 years
How would you draw a Snub Square Tiling? Let’s get methodical!
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1 year
I think ice is pretty cooooool
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1 year
The last aperiodic mono-tile announcement was just a warm up. It has now reached its final form: ✨The Spectre✨
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5 years
Ironically this donut shaped coffee cup is now no longer topologically similar to a donut! 🍩 ☕️
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2 years
Maths will always cheer me up, and art helps me breathe 🧘‍♀️ Enjoy this Magic Knight’s Tour (Cute pets and fun Maths facts very welcome in the replies 💗)
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2 years
I hope you can take time to show appreciation to the things you love, no matter how nerdy they are! Today, an art piece to celebrate aperiodic tilings and the living fossil Ginkgo Biloba 💗
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1 year
@hankgreen My pride and glory, genus 2 mug 🍩💗
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3 years
Maths 🥰
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2 years
I might be selling my soul by doing a ✨Fibonacci in Nature✨ video but this fact is just too good 🐝 34 days until 1/1/23
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3 years
Geology rocks, Maths counts, and Chemistry… is elementary, my dear Watson! 🏔📐🧪💗
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2 years
Well this is glorious :)
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Tiago Maranhao
2 years
@Ayliean Wonderful! Thank you so much for this! You made me drop everything and try to do this with code... after that, I wanted to try to see the transitions as you go from n->2n, n->3n... one thing led to another, @greensock was lying around, and then... (this goes up to n->10n)
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2 years
Ok, just for you 🤓💗
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2 years
@Ayliean I NEED AN UPDATE ON THIS
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2 years
It’s new tattoo day tomorrow, here’s the Maths of my last one 🌻 Get your suggestions in for anything you’d like to see permanently on my skin, or I might just do Moiré the same
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4 years
Every day is a good day for Maths, but here’s a calendar I drew up of some extra fun Maths dates for 2020 🥳 Can’t wait for Pythagorean Triple Day 📐 What other cool dates have I missed?
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2 years
Are the Fibonacci numbers everywhere? 🌿🐌🌸🌙 No. Although…
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2 years
Here, have a Christmas card! 🎄 *The card contains a secret binary message… 😟 The encoded message also says Merry Christmas!🥰☃️✨
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2 years
So so proud to say my 📐Pentile🌸 video was chosen for the… @BridgesMathart short film festival!!! Beaming
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3 years
The sound of a Koch snowflake ❄️❄️❄️
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4 years
TFW the entire first week of your holidays is forecast for rain ☔️ 128th iteration of the Toothpick Fractal OEIS A139250✨
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2 years
Take time to appreciate the small things in life… Like this hair bobble on the worktop going from a trefoil to a cardioid 😍 My nerdy cup is filled 🥰
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2 years
Got a new tattoo this weekend featuring Moire Patterns (among other Mathsy goodness) I’m very happy :)
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1 year
I am obsessed with the new aperiodic mono-tile 😍 Here’s a cute lil’ pink version for a wallpaper if you like 💗 Thank you so much @cs_kaplan and crew! The joy!!
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2 years
Maths combos, like PB&J for your mind
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2 years
CW: drugs/death When I was 7 my father died of a drug overdose… This could have been prevented with the use of Naloxone, so I used the last day of my holidays to get Naloxone training It took almost no time out of my day, but it could change a whole life 💗 If you can, do it
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3 years
Another year of teaching complete, another haul of beautiful D(6) snowflakes! Each one by a young person trying to grow and learn through a global pandemic Remember every single person you meet has a life as intricate as your own. Be kind to yourself, be kind to each other ❄️💗
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3 years
Spring iterations 🌿🌸✨
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2 years
I hope everyone has had a good first day of #MathsWeekScot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤓
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4 years
Happy Birthday @standupmaths 🥳 I made you a Parker Square as always! ✨101000✨
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4 years
Ok, Maths Teacher crew... some tricks for up your sleeves. My favourite whole class, 5-10 min projector board games suitable for all levels with clickable links A teacher guide with tips & curricular links You got this 💗🤓
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1 year
Beyond excited to be taking on this role! ✨Community Mathematician✨ Where’s ma cape?!
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Meet our new Community Mathematician, Ayliean, who will be bringing maths to the streets of Leeds and beyond! Ayliean wants to make maths a multi-sensory experience, so look out for maths art sessions, craft workshops, and maths-inspired food tasting! #Community #Maths #Leeds
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1 year
Oh no, someone has accidentally left an ENTIRE ROLL of very official looking brown paper in the back of my van…
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4 years
Hey! Made some Maths Challenge Pick'n'Mixes: To encourage pupils who are really struggling to do anything at home right now 💗 For pupils who just can't get enough Maths 💪 Would love any suggestions for future one line tasks! 🤓
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2 years
Occasionally when I’m not doing Maths I fiddle, I know @howie_hua trick throws rifles up in the air, and @Cshearer41 is a secret campanologist?! What do all the other Maths nerds do when they’re not Maths nerding?
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5 years
How to turn the humble #parkersquare into a Parker Cube to celebrate @standupmaths Birthday! 🎂 It’s like Christmaths came early!! I want to see as many of these as possible 🤓 Happy Birthday Matt 🎉
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10 months
Apropos of nothing, here is a list of reasons to love the number 32 🥳
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1 year
My intention is always to make more Maths videos, but I keep getting sent on side quests! Henrietta the owl made it through the night, and she is feeding, but the vets are still not overly hopeful 💗🦉🥚
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2 years
Meanwhile on the Maths side of TikTok…
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BBC News (UK)
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Girls dislike hard maths, says education adviser
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My first ever @BigMathsJam has been awesome so far! Featuring @jamesgrime and @SparksMaths stunt double
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Enjoy some relaxation for the 17th of August (my birthday eve!)
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4 years
An isometric variation of @anniek_p probability based Hitomezashi stitch patterns. I’ll definitely be trying this again, mostly because I’m sad I couldn’t 3 colour it!
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How to draw a perfect egg shape from a pentagon 🥚⭐️ My favourite thing I learned from the Big Maths Jam this year, I gave it a standing OVAtion!
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2 years
A wild Truncated Icosahedron appeared
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5 years
The sandwich containing the empty sandwich, or two empty sandwiches on top of each other?
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I just can’t stop making these toilet roll tube polyhedra! The perfect way to spend a Sunday morning 🤓
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3 years
D’aww thanks 🥰 assuming it’s changed for the better!
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My opinion on mathematics is forever changed tiktok @ayliean
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1 year
One week til 🥧Pi Day🥧 Any Mathletes out there wanna take me on in a Pi-athlon challenge? It’s easy as 𝝅
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Its just one big long line. The path of a knight♟ hitting every point on a 64x64 board Nerdalicious 🤓💗✨ Thanks @baabbaash for discovering this Hilberty pattern!
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I’m in New York! And I’m about to start a week long residency at The Museum of Mathematics @MoMath1 ✨dreams = true✨ If you too are in NYC then come say hi to me at the Maths Hangouts and Art Workshops 🤓💗
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2 years
I see your 15x15 Consecutive Prime Magic Square @VsauceTwo and I raise you a Prime Magic Square for the true connoisseur 🥂
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1 year
Who’s that polyhedron?! It’s Frustum!!
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3 years
If it won’t tessellate then decorate!💃 A wee overlapping octagon based geometric jam 📐 🤓💗
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2 years
I can’t tell you exactly why I spent a whole afternoon building a giant origami crane. But I can tell you that @stecks is an amazing organiser and you need to get the @24hmaths Game Show in your diary for next Friday!
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1 year
Live-streaming on in 1 minute. We’ll be talking about codebreaking and playing a few games from Ben Orlin’s amazing (and massive) book! Come along :)
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They’ve only gone and done it!! An aperiodic mono-tile ✨WITHOUT REFLECTIONS✨ Are you kidding me?! What a time to be alive!! 💗
@cs_kaplan
Craig S. Kaplan
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New shape just dropped! It turns out that the one shape in our old paper that tiled periodically (known as Tile(1,1) there) can be modified to tile aperiodically *without reflections*. More info at , full thread at
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I have so much work I could be doing, but for some reason all my brain wants to do is combine a photo I took of a leaf with the equation that explains why larger trees don’t have bigger leaves 🍃 Surprise fluid dynamics strikes again! I’m not even mad, that’s amazing.
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I’m a day late joining the #genuary2022 generative art fun! Day 1: Draw 10000 of something Thanks so much @amygoodchild for getting me involved, and for sharing your siiiick creative coding art 🔥✨
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Just a little bit obsessed with topology right now! Looooook at this nail set✨☕️🍩👖💗
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4 years
Maths Twitter Friends! Are you in need of something to do with your hands between washes? To celebrate my new “wireless” printer which so far only works as a photocopier I made a ✨Tiny Icosahedron Colouring Book✨ Slide into my DMs if you’d like one sliding into your postbox
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4 years
Black Lives Matter. The white Maths community cannot be silent about this. We must stand with the BLM movement now. And when this protest is over we have to keep fighting for equality in Maths. We need Black Mathematicians. #BlackLivesMatter
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2 years
For those asking for the end loop, here it is mod 120 with the numbers :)
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2 years
It’s a prime magic square but when you remove the units digit it’s still a magic square ✨
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2 years
Chasing pavements 📐✨
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3 years
▵ Y-toothpick fractal ▵ I highly recommend having a mess around on the OEIS toothpick-like sequence exploration tool 🤓💗
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2 years
Absolutely! Here are the steps for curve stitching a Trefoil Knot :) #MathsWeekScotland
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@Ayliean Can you explain what you’re connecting together on that one slowly please ?
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“Hey what did you do with your Summer holidays?” 😎 “I took photos of flowers and then arranged them in a Penrose tiling, you?” 🤓 @MathsArts #penflowertiling
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2 years
Took myself on a Saturday Night date and blew my mind with Mersenne Primes. A good evening all round 💃
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I’m so into Penrose tiles at the moment. The Rhombi ones remind me of cherry blossoms for some reason 🌸 Who needs translational symmetry when you can just use complicated, chaotic matching rules for your pattern?! 😅 #mathart #steam
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1 year
A lil curves of pursuit // spectre tile mashup inspired by the @timchartier linear art course last night 🪷💗 It’s digital but I still drew it by hand, I swear I will learn to code soon!
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3 years
Sorry I have been so quiet, it’s been an overwhelming week in many different ways; the kind responses to my @numberphile debut, presenting at the @G4GCelebration and sadly saying goodnight for a final time to my behind the scenes helper Skye, forever loved and missed 🖤🤍
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1 year
So much wasted energy goes into being internet angry! I think people forget you need surprisingly little permission to make positive changes in your surroundings :)
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Happy International Women in Maths Day! Earlier this week I fell in love with @FidgeyB and her work as a Maths Historian 💗 Enjoy this video of woman in maths, talking to another woman in maths about her career researching an historic woman of maths! Women 🥰 Maths 🥰
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