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The Mathematical Hamilton Parody You Never Knew You Needed
The discoverer of the quaternions gets Lin Manuel-ized
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
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Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing
Sphere packing—it's not just for oranges anymore
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Menger Sponge
It’s not quite two-dimensional, it’s not quite three-dimensional. Welcome to the weird world of fractal dimension
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Quiz: Are You a Real Math Geek?
A highly scientific assessment of your math geekitude
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What to Wear in the Ninth Dimension
Why your clothing is actually visiting you from higher-dimensional space
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Empty Set
A guided tour of nothing
Multidimensional "Sphere Packing" Solutions Stack Up as a Major Mathematical Breakthrough
Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska recently figured out how spheres could be efficiently arranged in eight and 24 dimensions
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49 Ways to Celebrate the Most Perfect Day of the Year
June 28—6/28 or 28/6—is the most mathematically perfect day of the year. Celebrate by befriending a perfect number
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Widget Accounting with FOIL
Using basic algebra to explain revenue shortfalls
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Topology at the Tonys
And the Tony Award for the best use of mathematics in a musical goes to…
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: 2 Tori Glued along a Slit
How to get from billiards to doughnuts
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The Male Gaze in a Math Book
I kind of assumed I could get past page 2 of a math book before the author objectified women...
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Modular Arithmetic at the Music Stand
A mathematical life hack for orchestral musicians
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How to Confuse a Traveling Mathematician
An embellished account of a border crossing
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What the Prime Number Tweetbot Taught Me about Infinite Sums
Sometimes we learn math from lectures and textbooks. Sometimes it's Web comics and Twitter
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How to Look at Art: A Mathematician's Perspective
To fully appreciate perspective art, mathematician Annalisa Crannell says both the artist and the art viewer need to do some math
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Wallis Sieve
This strange fractal-like object lets you "squeeze π" out of a square
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The Cubic Equation as Poetry
The solution to the cubic equation, in terza rima.
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Space-Filling Curves
Space-filling curves, puzzling maps between dimensions, have surprising real-world applications.
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Andrew Hacker and the Case of the Missing Trigonometry Question
Andrew Hacker makes a lot of mistakes in his most recent book. Some of them are interesting.
