I'm a professor at UMass Lowell. I write a monthly blog called Mathematical Enchantments (https://xitter.cf/t.co/8oUk5ueVoN). Sometimes I’m facetious w/o using smileys.
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Loved getting a shout out from @DrEugeniaCheng during her opening plenary at #NCTMCHI24. Here's the #TEDx talk she mentioned - that when we just tell students what's true mathematically we are enabling authoritarian tendencies.
youtu.be/Nel5PF8jtsM?si=rGo5…
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for fans of thought experiments
mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024…
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Here are 15 videos from G4G15 in Atlanta six months ago, please check them out and spread the word!
Most are only 6 or 7 minutes long, and there is a great variety of content on mathematics, magic & mystery.
Lots more coming!
@WWMGT @G4GCelebration
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Blog: What discipline is the "opposite" of math?
(opposite = requiring a skillset that's orthogonal at best, and may even have a negative dot product with math's skillset)
(e.g., this discipline probably rejects the idea of inner products for skillsets)
mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024…
James Propp retweeted
the Dune logo written in LaTeX looks pretty close to the actual one
ALT The latex version. Black text on white background
ALT The movie title logo. Text "Dune part two" over an orange planet
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Link to the article tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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I'm excited to have a new column up on @QuantaMagazine. It is the math of billiards on polygonal (not necessarily rectangular) tables: "Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards." Link below. quantamagazine.org/the-myste…
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Register for "Advances in Lie Theory, Representation Theory, and Combinatorics" Workshop: Inspired by the work of Georgia M. Benkart, May 1-3 at SLMath (MSRI) + online. Details: mailchi.mp/slmath/benkart-wo… or slmath.org/workshops/1065. (Apply for funding by February 12, 2024.)
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The Serious Whimsy of Recreational Mathematics at JMM 2024 ams.org/news?news_id=7295
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Topological magic trick: Draw a rectangular border around a piece of paper. Tell the audience member that they will be drawing a simple closed curve on the paper—the more complicated they make it, the better. It can (and should) go in and out of the border rectangle
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Never write a chapter named “Introduction” and don’t expect anyone to read your footnotes.
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The precision is quite mesmerising
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Reading the fantastic biography of von Neumann by @Ananyo , I learned the useful German phrase "Froschmäusekrieg", literally "a war of frogs and mice", meaning "a bitter but unimportant altercation".
Useful term for many of today's academic battles!
