Tag Archives: mathematics

A Thrice-a-Day Complex Analysis Infusion

Posted on March 9, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Sometimes I like to sit back and take in math via pictures only. The newest addition to my math picture blog stable is kettenreihen.wordpress.com where three times a day, a beautiful picture appears. These are graphs of complex-valued functions based … Continue reading →

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It’s Not a Trick, It’s an Illusion

Posted on August 24, 2016 by evelynjlamb

I’ve stumbled on the Best Illusion of the Year Contest a few times, but this is the first year I’ve thought about the illusions mathematically. Dave Richeson wrote two posts about this illusion by Kokichi Sugihara, one of the top … Continue reading →

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Picture This!

Posted on July 6, 2016 by evelynjlamb

I doubt I’m the only person who sees the front cover of a math book or a conference poster and wants to know more about the picture. That’s why I was excited that when the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics … Continue reading →

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Enchanted

Posted on June 7, 2016 by evelynjlamb

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 →

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How Math Can Help You Avoid Talking about Politics at the Holidays

Posted on November 23, 2015 by evelynjlamb

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m sure your wonderful family is the exception, but sometimes holiday dinner conversations can veer into unpleasant territory. If you don’t have Adele to bail you out, math blogs are here to help. (When your only tool is a … Continue reading →

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Grad School, Blogged

Posted on October 6, 2015 by evelynjlamb

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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Topology Teaching Blogs

Posted on March 2, 2015 by evelynjlamb

I’m teaching topology for the first time this semester, so I’ve been poking around the blogosphere for ideas of different ways to explain some of the ideas in this class to my students. Luckily, right before I started the semester, I ran … Continue reading →

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Simple Words, Complicated Math

Posted on November 12, 2014 by evelynjlamb

A couple years ago, xkcd described the Saturn V rocket (Up Goer 5) using only the thousand ten hundred most common English words. Of course, xkcd readers were eager to try it themselves, and geneticist Theo Sanderson created an online text … Continue reading →

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Highly Unlikely Triangles and Other Beaded Mathematics

Posted on October 27, 2014 by evelynjlamb

I first encountered Gwen Fisher’s work at the fiber arts exhibit at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore. Fisher has a Ph.D. in math education and is an accomplished mathematical artist who specializes in beading. I featured one of her … Continue reading →

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First Impressions of the Second Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Posted on September 22, 2014 by evelynjlamb

Last year, I wrote with some envy about the first annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum. This year, I’m there! I mean, here! Yes, after several flights and a few train delays, I’m finally in Heidelberg, and if the fog clears and … Continue reading →

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