Stories by Evelyn Lamb

Come for the fractals. Stay for the bunny puns

I took a walk and tripped—almost literally—over a beautiful octagonal tiling

Rue Sophie Germain is not the only Paris street named for a mathématicienne

I wish we got to read a different story about Sophie Germain

A natural habitat for hyperbolic geometry

Mathematics and mathematicians thrive when they can travel freely around the world

The euclidean circle constant? Been there, done that. Here are some other π's you might consider

"Being trans is beautiful"

Because “the bounded Fatou domain of the function f(z)=(z+z^2)/2” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue

I turn to the Kakeya needle problem for reassurance in difficult times

A calendrical-linguistic coincidence leads to a thrice-in-a-century holiday.

Contemplating communication with Claude Shannon

It's a ubiquitous badge of mathematical pride. But what *is* it?

How a routine trip to the art museum became a meditation on the empty set

Wilson's theorem is why we can't have nice things

A post to commemorate this blog's fourth trip around the sun

Because prime numbers didn't let us down this year.

All train lines lead to Paris

The program is over when the data have yielded an answer or chosen not to

How I would revamp the Breakthrough Prize

A familiar shape gets weird 

"The One Moment" is made possible by numbers

Weyl's eulogy for Emmy Noether starts to sound like a eulogy for German mathematics

Paul Erdős versus Moore's law