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Category Archives: Math Communication
New PBS Show All About Math
Last week PBS launched a new show on YouTube all about math called Infinite Series. The first three episodes are up and they’re a ton of fun. The show is hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards, who is a graduate student at … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication
Tagged Infinite Series, Kelsey Houston-Edwards, PBS, Pigeon Hole Principle, sphere packing
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The Mathematical Tweet Beat
I was a twitter skeptic for a very long time. And now my love affair with twitter is so deep, it’s hard to even remember what my reservations were in the first place. I first joined in 2013, compelled by … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication, Uncategorized
Tagged math tweets, twitter
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Enchanted
There are only 12 posts on Jim Propp’s blog Mathematical Enchantments so far, and they are all superb. Propp is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and his blog is different from a lot of blogs I read. … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication
Tagged Fermat's Last Theorem, Jim Propp, math, mathematical enchantments, mathematics
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Look Around You: Spherical Videos and Möbius Transformations
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve watched the short video “Möbius transformations revealed” by Douglas Arnold and Jonathan Rogness. It is a beautiful tribute to beautiful functions. As a complex analysis and hyperbolic geometry fangirl, I am … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication, Mathematics and the Arts
Tagged Andrea Hawksley, droste effect, eleVR, Emily Eifler, henry segerman, Moebius transformations, spherical video, Vi Hart, virtual reality
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Today’s Post Is Brought To You By The Letter P
There is this joke that people like to make. It’s something about how real mathematicians don’t use numbers. It’s a little bit funny, and a lot true. As a number theorist, I, more so than anybody, should be using numbers, … Continue reading
Diagonalization and Other Mathematical Wonders
It’s only a slight exaggeration to say I’m a mathematician because of Cantor’s diagonalization arguments (both the proof that the rationals are countable and the proof that the reals aren’t). I was already enjoying my intro to proofs class when … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication
Tagged diagonalization, Kevin Knudson, Mike Lawler, nostalgia, smbc comics
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Hot Hands and Tuesday’s Children
People, especially sports fans, seem to believe that players can get “hot,” that they will hit more baskets (or succeed in whatever metric is of interest in their sport) more after a series of hits than after a series of … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication, Statistics
Tagged Andrew Gelman, fallacy of the hot hand fallacy, hot hand, hot hand fallacy, Jordan Ellenberg, probability, sons born on Tuesday, Tanya Khovanova
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Blogging in Math Class: A Q&A with Casey Douglas
Last year, I had my math history students write a blog. The course counts as a writing credit, so blog posts seemed like good short writing assignments. But what about blogging in a math class that’s just a math class? … Continue reading
Grad School, Blogged
A few months ago, I stumbled on Tai-Danae Bradley’s excellent blog Math3ma. Bradley is a math graduate student at CUNY, and she writes about the kinds of topics that show up in first-year graduate courses and later on the qualifying … Continue reading
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Tagged algebra, analysis, graduate school, math, mathematics, Tai-Danae Bradley, topology
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There’s Something about Pentagons
Last month, researchers Casey Mann, Jennifer McLoud, and David Von Derau at the University of Washington Bothell found a new pentagon that tiles the plane, and the crowd went wild. It’s tough for a piece of research mathematics to get … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication, Recreational Mathematics
Tagged pentagons, tessellations, tilings
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