I ran across a neat video by Jonathan Rogness that Manil Suri shared on his Twitter feed. It is a video that talks about Möbius Transformations and what they are. It also introduces the idea of going into the next dimension and adding Riemann’s sphere to help with understanding how these transformations take place.
Do you have any favorite math videos?
Recently I saw a Tweet by @nytimes of an article by Manil Suri (shown to the left).
How to fall in love with math: http://t.co/I4d34oSmKf
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 17, 2013
This article really makes the point that mathematics is not the same as arithmetic. I know you have all had that conversation where someone finds out you are a mathematician and their first question is “What is 
As a mathematician, I can attest that my field is really about ideas above anything else. Ideas that inform our existence, that permeate our universe and beyond, that can surprise and enthrall.
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Do you like to read, write, and learn about mathematics?
If you answered yes to these questions, perhaps you would be a good editor for the AMS Graduate Student Blog. Email Tyler Clark (me) at tyler.clark@ucf.edu for more information. I look forward to hearing from you!
I had the pleasure last week of tracking down an article locked behind a digital paywall. It arrived through inter-library loan in the form of a book, all issues of the journal that year bound together. I felt a little disappointed as it meant I’d be left with lower quality scans. (You know what I’m talking about if you’ve ever placed a book on a copy machine.) I turned to the internet for a solution and discovered the tool gscan2pdf.
Some problems in mathematics remain buried deep in the catacombs of slow progress. Whether in Algebra, Topology, Discrete Math, or Analysis, mind-stretching mysteries await to be discovered beyond the boundaries of former thought. Frequently, solutions to such problems come from a clever combination of previously known results. In conjunction with this concept, it is often helpful to reformulate open problems into equivalent statements to gain different perspectives.
