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🔥𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘩🔥 ᴼᶜᵗ ²⁸ ⁻ ³¹ Registration for the 47th AMATYC Annual Conference is now open!!! Register at amatyc.org
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Boston has a plaque dedicated to π. 🥧
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Happy #WorldTeachersDay! Here’s a big shout out to all teachers across the world -- for their unmatched dedication to future generations in times of crisis and always. Join us in saying THANK YOU! ❤ on.unesco.org/2NPGt74
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It's #WorldTeachersDay! Join these children from across the world in appreciation of educators helping students learn before, during and after #COVID19 school closures. #ThankYouTeacher
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6 was scared of 7 because 7,8,9 but why did 7 eat 9?
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That being said, it’s incredibly useful, beautiful, and fun and you should totally study it
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#DiffEqModeling with #SIMIODE - Community of teachers/learners using modeling to motivate differential equations. simiode.org. SCUDEM Now open for registration at simiode.org/scudem .
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Happy #AprilFoolsDay! Bring a little levity into your day & try to see if you can figure out where the #proof goes wrong! It highlights a classic #fallacy in mathematical thinking. We will reveal the correct answer tomorrow afternoon! (Credit: Skulls in the Stars)
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Liouville proved the following property of the divisors of the divisors of a number: 1) Start with a number (e.g. 10) 2) Write down its divisors (1,2,5,10) 3) Write down the number of divisors of each divisor (1,2,2,4) 4) (1+2+2+4)²=81=1³+2³+2³+4³
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Warning: this might scare you a few standard deviations above the norm! #FunFriday #DOMATH #Spooktober
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Today I woke up and realized the company that built the apartments next door left hundreds of visual proofs that (a+b)² = a²+2ab+b² hidden on the windows!
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438,579,088 and 3,435 are the only 2 numbers with this property
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Here's a challenge: can you find a prime of the form pᵖ+2 where p is prime, apart from 29?
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This is how the penguin diagram name in quantum field theory was born: particle physicist John Ellis lost a bet playing darts at a bar and had to put the word penguin into his next paper.
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This is the only known solution to n! = a!b! apart from the general pattern, (n!)! = n!(n! - 1)!
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Plato, tutored by Theodorus, questioned why Theodorus stopped at √17. The reason is commonly believed to be that the √17 hypotenuse belongs to the last triangle that does not overlap the figure.
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π to the power of π
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Here's a 1,400 years old approximation to the sine function (0 ≤ x ≤ π) by Mahabhaskariya of Bhaskara I
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