Combinatorics in the Wild
What does a mathematician think about when she goes for a walk? Optimizing her route, of course!
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
The Scenic Route to Infinity
"To infinity...very slowly."
Can You Tell Mathematics from Poetry? Take the Quiz to Find out
"_______ is the ______ of logical ideas"—Albert Einstein. Do the words "mathematics" or "poetry" fill those blanks?
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Torus
Math is always better over an orientable genus one pastry, the tastiest of topological examples.
Math on the Run
If you ran a race at an average pace of 3:07 per kilometer, did you run any single kilometer in exactly 3:07? Well, it's complicated.
From Zombies to Abused Statistics: My Scariest Math Posts
You might need to leave the light on at night after reading these. Brace yourself for zombies, devils, mummies, and...higher homotopy groups?
Teaching the Controversy: Is 5 × 3 Five 3s or Three 5s?
The latest (misnamed) "Common Core math" flare-up: is 5 × 3 Five 3s or Three 5s?
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Fano Plane
The intuition-challenging Fano plane may be the smallest interesting configuration of points and lines.
A Close Encounter with Grothendieck and His Fence
What happens when we meet our heroes? One graduate student arranged a meeting with reclusive mathematician Alexander Grothendieck and found out.
The Subterfuge of Epsilon and Delta
The epsilon-delta proof, the nemesis of many a calculus student, is an initiation rite into the mysteries of proof writing.
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