At Slate, I wrote about a pi meme that’s been going around for a few months, most recently shared by George Takei’s facebook page.
We don’t know for sure that pi contains all possible strings of decimal digits, but on a deeper level, the meme is right. And if it gets you pondering the mysteries of infinity, so much the bett [...]
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Your Life in Pi
At Slate, I wrote about a pi meme that’s been going around for a few months, most recently shared by George Takei’s facebook page.
We don’t know for sure that pi contains all possible strings of decimal digits, but on a deeper level, the meme is right. And if it gets you pondering the mysteries of infinity, so much the bett [...]
Mathy Ladies to Follow on Twitter
Image: Design Shack
In the current issue of the Association for Women in Mathematics newsletter(password required), Anne Carlill asks where the female mathematicians are on Twitter:
“I found that the only female mathematicians or math educators I followed were Nalini Joshi in Sydney and Fawn Nguyen in California. In contrast there are about 1 [...]
The Mathematics of Planet Earth
This is my first contribution to a new blog hosted by the American Mathematical Society, the Blog on Math Blogs. My co-editor Brie Finegold and I are “touring the mathematical blogosphere” to help people keep up with math news and find new blogs to read. My inaugural post is about the Mathematics of Planet Earth blog.
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Wear Your Geeky Heart on Your Sleeve,...
Over at Roots of Unity, I wrote about a “geek chic” fabric design contest.
I had been aware of Spoonflower for a while, but I really got excited about fabric design at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January. I attended a talk by Frank Farris, a mathematician at Santa Clara University, in which he described how he used Spoonflo [...]
March Madness Math: Are the “Dr...
This post has become painful for me following Baylor’s premature elimination from the women’s tournament, but I present it here anyway.
The opening tip of the 2012 NCAA women’s basketball championship game, played April 3, 2012. My Baylor Lady Bears, led by #42 Brittney Griner and #0 Odyssey Sims, defeated Notre Dame 80-61. [...]
91 Is April Fooling You
7 × 13 pieces of beach glass found on the shore of Lake Michigan and arranged on my coffee table.
On April Fools’ Day, I wrote about 91, a non-prime that looks prime and has fooled me more than once.
You can generate your own fake primes, or Lamb pseudoprimes, by finding any two or more prime numbers other than 2, 3, 5, and 11 and multi [...]
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