The Sciences
The Last Root of Unity
It’s time to say goodbye to the blog
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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One Weird Trick to Make Calculus More Beautiful
The strange power of complex analysis
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Proving a Legendary Mathematician Wrong
Remembering “Euler’s spoilers,” who showed that special magic squares exist
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When Rational Points Are Few and Far Between
BEAM program manager Ruthi Hortsch shares her love of Faltings’s theorem
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Diana Davis’s Beautiful Pentagons
This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys
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The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations
Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve
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Discovering Joyful Math Away from the Classroom
Here are resources for students, parents and other learners
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Prime Factorization as Verse
Creating poetry with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
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The Theorem That Applies to Everything from Search Algorithms to Epidemiology
Perron-Frobenius theorem and linear algebra have many virtues to extol
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That Time It Took a Student 44 Years to Get Her Degree because She Was a Woman
Christine Ladd-Franklin received a Ph.D. in 1926 for work completed in 1882
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Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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Cross-Check
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Dog Spies
Explore the science behind the dog in your bed
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Extinction Countdown
News and research about endangered species from around the world
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The Science Behind Extreme Weather
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Climate science in a changing world
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Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Rosetta Stones
Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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SA Visual
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Talking back
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The Artful Amoeba
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Voices
Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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