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One Weird Trick to Make Calculus More Beautiful
The strange power of complex analysis
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
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Proving a Legendary Mathematician Wrong
Remembering “Euler’s spoilers,” who showed that special magic squares exist
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When Rational Points Are Few and Far Between
BEAM program manager Ruthi Hortsch shares her love of Faltings’s theorem
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Diana Davis’s Beautiful Pentagons
This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys
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The Monster That Expands Our Mathematical Imaginations
Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve
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Discovering Joyful Math Away from the Classroom
Here are resources for students, parents and other learners
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Prime Factorization as Verse
Creating poetry with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
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The Theorem That Applies to Everything from Search Algorithms to Epidemiology
Perron-Frobenius theorem and linear algebra have many virtues to extol
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That Time It Took a Student 44 Years to Get Her Degree because She Was a Woman
Christine Ladd-Franklin received a Ph.D. in 1926 for work completed in 1882
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The Very Special Triangles
A recent paper uncovers a unique pair of shapes
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An Inclusive Vision of Math
Francis Su’s book Mathematics for Human Flourishing is both an invitation and a challenge
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The Intersected States of America
Sometimes a union does not feel very united
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Computation in Service of Poetry
An algorithm calculates powers of 2 from a classical Sanskrit math text
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The Theorem That Made a Mathematician
Sometimes unimportant math can change your life
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Forget Meters and Feet
There’s only one truly basic unit of length for earthlings
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Once More, With Turning
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem is a mathematical favorite
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2 Continues Its Reign as the Smallest Known Prime Number
Large prime numbers get a lot of attention, but this tiny work horse deserves some love, too
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The Mathematics of Opt Art
In his new book, Robert Bosch explains the optimization tools he uses to create intricate and playful images
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The Math Reading Challenge 2020
Here are 12 prompts to help you find mathematics-related books for the coming year...
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The Bayes Appreciation Society
Sophie Carr shares her love for a fundamental theorem about probability
