Roots of Unity Turns 5
Happy birthday, dear blog!
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
Mohamed Omar's Favorite Theorem
The Harvey Mudd math professor tells us what dessert pairs best with Burnside’s Lemma
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Bicylinder
Also known as mouhefanggai or the Steinmetz solid, this shape appeared in the first Chinese explorations of the volume of a sphere
Do You Know Your ABCs?
The mysterious abc conjecture is once again in the news. What is it?
Ami Radunskaya's Favorite Theorem
The Pomona College professor talks about ergodic functions, Steve Reich music and the way her favorite theorem can guide our lives
Justin Curry's Favorite Theorem
The University at Albany mathematician talks about why he just can’t get enough of those Platonic solids
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Koch Snowflake
A look at the most festive fractal
Spending a Moment with Émilie Du Châtelet
A portrait of an 18th-century woman mathematician
Bathroom, Mathroom
For World Toilet Day, an appreciation of the most mathematically interesting room in the house
Henry Fowler's Favorite Theorem
The chair of the mathematics department at Diné College talks about what the Pythagorean Theorem intersects with his identity as a Navajo
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Loch Ness Monster
“They did the math, they did the monster math…”
Eriko Hironaka's Favorite Theorem
The math book editor and professor emerita describes the theorem that made her believe she could be a mathematician and the music that pairs best with it
Household Chores for Mathematicians
Need a babysitter? Ask a combinatorialist. Baseboards dirty? A number theorist won't mind cleaning them. And other highly scientific recommendations for mathematicians to handle the housework...
Dusa McDuff's Favorite Theorem
Dusa McDuff explains why she loves the nonsqueezing theorem—and what vegetable she'd pair it with
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The 1-Dimensional Sphere
There’s more to the circle than meets the π
An Interview with Yours Truly
What advice do I have for graduate students? Tl;dr: It's okay to get help
The Joy of Sexagesimal Floating-Point Arithmetic
One eighth equals seven and thirty in this strange base 60 world
Jordan Ellenberg's Favorite Theorem
The University of Wisconsin mathematician loves Fermat's little theorem and knows just the right cheese to pair with it
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Real Projective Plane
How to make parallel lines converge
Don't Fall for Babylonian Trigonometry Hype
Separating fact from speculation in math history
