An airtight proof that there are more than 26 numbers
September 26, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
Or should that be Ping-Pong for narcissists?
September 22, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
In memory of Michael Boshernitzan
September 8, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
Walking the Pythagorean theorem
September 7, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
Can AI be creative? Maybe not, but it can be amusing
August 28, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
Digging into the statistics about rice farming and climate change
August 25, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
Tracing our mathematical foremothers
August 12, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
What to do with those pesky order of operations questions?
August 10, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
Sometimes mathematics chases its own tail
August 3, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
In her new book The Weil Conjectures, Karen Olsson ruminates on the trajectories of André and Simone Weil
July 20, 2019 — Evelyn Lamb
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