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2 Plausible Things That Cannot Both Be True
Your daily dose of number theory weirdness
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
Peculiar Pattern Found in "Random" Prime Numbers
Last digits of nearby primes have "anti-sameness" bias
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How to Sew Like a Mathematician
An investigation of toroidal bias tape
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Could You Tune Every Key on a Piano to a Middle C?
Android recently released an ad featuring a "monotuned" piano. Do not try this at home.
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Math Photo: Projection
A picture is worth a thousand equations.
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Black Mathematical Excellence: A Q&A with Erica Walker
Erica Walker explores the diversity of Black mathematical experience in her book Beyond Banneker.
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Long Line
"My love for you is like the long line - similar to real love in most respects, just longer." Meet the cheesy Valentine's Day card of topological spaces.
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Möbius Strip
Meet the Möbius band, the topological space with the most poignant storytelling potential.
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An Impractical, Ahistorical, Mathematically Elegant Way to Figure out Earth Is a Sphere
All it takes is several friends and a lot of rope
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PSA: Do Not Use the New Prime Number for RSA Encryption
You might be tempted to use that shiny new prime number for RSA encryption. Don't do it.
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Thinking about How and Why We Prove
Stacking oranges leads to computer-assisted mathematics. But does it feel like mathematics?
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What I Wrote this Year
Another year, another year in review.
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Three-Torus
Living in a three-dimensional torus would be a narcissist's dream.
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Contrasts in Number Theory
Mathematicians of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains!
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Encountering Combinatorics in the Wild
What does a mathematician think about when she goes for a walk? Optimizing her route, of course!
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The Scenic Route to Infinity
"To infinity...very slowly."
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Can You Tell Mathematics from Poetry? Take the Quiz to Find out
"_______ is the ______ of logical ideas"—Albert Einstein. Do the words "mathematics" or "poetry" fill those blanks?
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A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Torus
Math is always better over an orientable genus one pastry, the tastiest of topological examples.
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Math on the Run
If you ran a race at an average pace of 3:07 per kilometer, did you run any single kilometer in exactly 3:07? Well, it's complicated.
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By Solving the Mysteries of Shape-Shifting Spaces, Mathematician Wins $3-Million Prize
The second annual Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics goes to topologist Ian Agol of the University of California, Berkeley
