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Author Archives: evelynjlamb
You Get Calculus! And You Get Calculus! Everybody Gets Calculus!
In honor of the beginning of the school year, which is coming in the next few weeks for many of us, I thought you might like opencalculus. Matt Boelkins, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, is working … Continue reading
Posted in Math Education, Publishing in Math
Tagged calculus, free textbooks, open calculus, open textbooks, textbooks
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A Tasty Geometric Morsel Every Day
I don’t remember how I first found Geometry Daily. Probably through Twitter. Every day German graphic designer Tilman Zitzmann posts a “new minimal geometric composition.” It’s not exactly a math blog, but I think many mathematicians will, like me, find … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics and the Arts
Tagged design, geometry, geometry daily, mathematical art, minimal design, Tilman Zitzmann
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Platonic Solids, Symmetry, and the Fourth Dimension
On his blog Azimuth, John Baez has been posting a series called “Symmetry and the Fourth Dimension.” He writes: “The idea is to start with something very familiar and then take it a little further than most people have seen…without … Continue reading
Posted in Math Education, Theoretical Mathematics
Tagged 3-d geometry, 4-d geometry, fourth dimension, geometry, john baez, platonic solids, polytopes, visualizaion
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Celebrating the Grandmothers of STEM
It’s not strictly mathematical, but Grandma Got STEM is one of my favorite blogs. It’s a collection of stories about grandmothers and other older women who have or had careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Posted in women in math
Tagged education, recommended reading, science, women in science
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On Pregnancy and Probability
I have never been pregnant, but from what I understand, it is full of bizarre cravings, frequent bathroom breaks, and a smorgasbord of medical scans and tests. This last part is what concerns Kate Owens. She is a visiting assistant … Continue reading
This Week in Number Theory
By now you’ve probably heard the announcements of two big results in number theory: Yitang Zhang of the University of New Hampshire proved that there are infinitely many pairs of primes whose differences are under 70 million, and Harald Helfgott … Continue reading
Posted in Theoretical Mathematics
Tagged goldbach conjecture, number theory, prime numbers, twin primes
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Binary Bonsai and Other Mathematical “Plants”
Many of us have seen Fibonacci numbers in sunflowers and hyperbolic curvature in kale leaves. Botanica Mathematica, “a textile taxonomy of mathematical plant forms,” takes mathematical-botanical correspondences like these and throws in a little fiber art. “The Botanica Mathematica project … Continue reading
Posted in Applied Math, Mathematics and the Arts
Tagged botany, crochet, knitting, plants, recommended reading, textiles
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The Mathematics of Planet Earth
Happy Earth Day! It seems appropriate today to highlight the Mathematics of Planet Earth blog. In fact, it’s triply appropriate: today is Earth Day, April is Mathematics Awareness Month (with a theme this year of the mathematics of sustainability), and … Continue reading
Posted in Applied Math
Tagged climate change, Earth Day, ecology, network theory
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Tangled Up in Low-Dimensional Topology
Low Dimensional Topology is, logically enough, a blog about low-dimensional topology. Authors Ryan Budney, Nathan Dunfield, Jesse Johnson, Daniel Moskovich, and Henry Wilton write about 2-, 3-, and 4-manifolds, knot theory, quantum topology, and more Heegaard splittings than you can … Continue reading →