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Diagonalizing the Psalms
Mathematics-inspired manipulations of scripture
Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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1,000 Years of Congruent Numbers
These integers have inspired one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics
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A Feat of Mathematical Eponymy
2400 years separate two people with whom this computer science term is associated
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Happy Numbers Have No Density
These blissful integers are a bit mysterious
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The Funniest Math Joke
Because you know it has to be when you write 400 words explaining it
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Inka History in Knots [Book Review]
Gary Urton explains what we can and cannot know about Inka khipus
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A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers
Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes opens the door to some interesting questions
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A Journey through Gromov's Gap
Moon Duchin shares an abstract theorem with surprising connections to gerrymandering
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The Serendipity of Swiss Cheese
This holey mathematical object was discovered by a Swiss mathematician and then forgotten for decades
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I Can Has Numberz?
Mathematicians can be adorably ignorant...
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