Math
Modular Arithmetic at the Music Stand
A mathematical life hack for orchestral musicians
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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How to Confuse a Traveling Mathematician
An embellished account of a border crossing
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What the Prime Number Tweetbot Taught Me about Infinite Sums
Sometimes we learn math from lectures and textbooks. Sometimes it's Web comics and Twitter
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How to Look at Art: A Mathematician's Perspective
To fully appreciate perspective art, mathematician Annalisa Crannell says both the artist and the art viewer need to do some math
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Wallis Sieve
This strange fractal-like object lets you "squeeze π" out of a square
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The Cubic Equation as Poetry
The solution to the cubic equation, in terza rima.
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Space-Filling Curves
Space-filling curves, puzzling maps between dimensions, have surprising real-world applications.
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Andrew Hacker and the Case of the Missing Trigonometry Question
Andrew Hacker makes a lot of mistakes in his most recent book. Some of them are interesting.
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2 Plausible Things That Cannot Both Be True
Your daily dose of number theory weirdness
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How to Sew Like a Mathematician
An investigation of toroidal bias tape
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