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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Mathematical Aesthetics in a Beautiful Town

One of my works from the 2011 Bridges Mathematical Art Conference in Coimbra Portugal made it into the Notice of the AMS. Here's a link to the article and a screen shot of one of the pages.

www.ams.org/notices/201205/rtx120500648p.pdf




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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

xkcd puzzle

Here's a fun calculation from xkcd.com. Puzzle: why does this work? Can you find other numbers in which the same trick applies? Can you generalize?


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