Writing Guide – Calendar
On our home page, we show a upcoming maths anniversaries and occasions from our calendar.
If you are interested in writing a post for our calendar, we recommend you read this page in full.
The process of writing a post for our calendar, from beginning research to finishing writing, should take around 30 minutes.
Summary
Our calendar posts are a fun addition to our Maths Society homepage, focusing on the most important event from mathematical history to occur on that date. They are short, witty, and snappy, with the story explained on the homepage but an extra paragraph or two and links to elsewhere on the website for those interested enough to click on it.
We also include a number of the ‘maths holidays’ that people have come up with over the years, from the famous Pi Day to its rival Tau Day and even Yellow Pig Day, and other important dates in the calendar.
Topic for each date
For your calendar post, choose a date from below that currently has no published post. Some dates will already have a suggested title or topic. You can write on this topic or if you have a different suggestion for the topic on a specific day, you are more than welcome to submit that idea. If no topic is suggested, you can research to find what you consider the most important mathematical event to have happened on that date in history, and write on that topic.
Please consider choosing dates with few other posts either side of them, to ensure that the posts displayed on the homepage are as relevant as possible.
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| 01/09 | In 1920 the Central Limit theorem got its name | |
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| 05/09 | Kurt Godel presented his Completeness Theorem to the annual meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung in 1930 | |
| 06/09 | The first Polish Mathematical Congress opened in Lwow | |
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| 09/09 | The St. Petersburg Paradox was invented by Nicolas Bernoull in 1713 | |
| 10/09 | In 1542 Charles V of Spain offers 1,000 escudos for the solution of the quadrature of the circle problem in a letter to Rabelais | |
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Structure
Calendar posts should have two or three normal-length paragraphs, the first of which will be displayed on the homepage. The first paragraph should briefly explain what happened on that day in history and why it was significant, and the following paragraph(s) can go into slightly more detail.
Writing
Good calendar posts:
- Are short, witty, and snappy
- Get what the event was and its significance across to the reader quickly
- Include lots of opportunities to hyperlink to other pages on the website
References and Accuracy
- All statements, assertions and formulae should be thoroughly checked to be accurate
- British terms used by the United Kingdom’s National Curriculum should be used by default but where alternative terms are used internationally they should be made clear
- A list of sources is not necessary but may improve the chance of an article being published
Please note that we advise against extensive use of AI chatbots in the writing of articles. There are many reputable sources and resources both online and in print for your research and inspiration.
If after reading this guide you still have any questions, or want to get in touch with suggestions to improve this guide, please contact us.