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John D. Cook Consulting
Consulting in mathematical analysis, from modeling to implementation to interpretation.
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Rotating MacBook keys
Shortly after I started using a MacBook I remapped the keys so that they function the same way on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. The key in the lower left corner, for example, behaves the …
Live Free or Dichotomize
By Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Nick Strayer.
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Spooky Seasons Greetings
I thought it’d be fun to celebrate spooky season with a little stats punny plot. We’re going to turn a normal distribution into a paranormal distribution! HA! Ok first let’s get some packages. library(tidyverse) library(tweenr) …
By Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, 359 words
Luca Marx
automata theory, finite state machines, quantum mechanics, category theory, software development.
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Updated 10 months ago
An Introduction to Automata
Why are automata so interesting? Automata are so simple that they fit in many places and situations.
Mathspp Blog
A blog dedicated to mathematics and programming!
By Rodrigo Girão Serrão.
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TIL #107 – Automatically activating virtual environments
Today I learned how to use shell scripting to activate my virtual environment automatically when I change directories. Automatically activating virtual environments Since I can remember, whenever I cd into a directory that contains a …
MixedMath: Blog
I study mathematics. My research falls mostly inside number theory, arithmetic geometry, cryptography, and computation.
By David Lowry-Duda.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
Slides from a talk at LSU on Murmuration phenoma in number theory
I'm giving a talk at LSU on murmurations in number theory, and to a lesser extent about machine learning in number theory. The slides for my talk are here. I do some relatively fancy (for …
By David Lowry-Duda, 126 words
M-Phi
A blog dedicated to mathematical philosophy.
By Richard Pettigrew.
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Updated 7 months ago
Discount code for Bertrand's Paradox and the Principle of Indifference by Nicholas Shackel
Nicholas Shackel (Cardiff) has a new book out that might be of interest to readers, and there is a discount code available that Nick has asked me to pass on. Details below.Bertrand’s Paradox and the …
By Richard Pettigrew, 198 words
The n-Category Café
A group blog on math, physics and philosophy.
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Axiomatic Set Theory 10: Cardinal Arithmetic
Previously: Part 9. The course is over! The grand finale was the theorem that X×Y≅X+Y≅max(X,Y) X \times Y \cong X + Y \cong max(X, Y) for all infinite sets XX and YY. Proving this required …
Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics
By Jess Hartnett.
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Updated 2 weeks ago
An interactive that gets your students thinking about medians, percentiles, and their own sleeping habits.
My students struggle with sleeping and are distracted by electronics. This interactive activity allows them to think about their sleep relative to norms regarding age and sex. It also dives deeply into how sleep changes …
By Jessica Hartnett, 153 words
Persiflage
Galois Representations and more!
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Giving a good mathematics talk
Last week, Tadashi Tokieda came to Chicago to give a colloquium. If you have seen him speak, you will not be surprised to learn that it was absolutely delightful talk. I carried the talk around …
Peter Cameron's Blog
always busy counting, doubting every figured guess . . .
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St Bernard on collaboration
I found the answer to the annoying bureaucrats who ask what percentage of the work on a publication was done by each of its authors, in the writings of St Bernard. He said, Grace is …
By Peter Cameron, 105 words
Pieter Belmans — blog
My mathematical interests are in algebraic geometry, noncommutative algebra and higher structures.
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New paper: The Albanese morphism for hyperelliptic varieties
This blogpost is about The Albanese morphism for hyperelliptic varieties. If you just want mathematics and not some of the backstory, you can click the link to immediately get to the preprint. Background Back in …
Quomodocumque
Math, Madison, food, the Orioles, books, my kids.
By Jordan S. Ellenberg.
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Dream (hope)
Dream. I’m sitting around a table with a bunch of writer friends. I say “You know what my biggest challenge as a writer is?” But then someone else jumps in to say something slightly related …
Sharon Lohr — Blog
Sharon Lohr researches and writes about statistics: where they come from, how to interpret them, and how to tell the good statistics from the bad.
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Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics
It’s time for my annual update on crime statistics, following the September release of 2023 numbers by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). We …
By Sharon Lohr, 2,818 words
Stats Chat
'Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.' - H.G. Wells.
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United Rugby Championship Predictions for Week 8
Team Ratings for Week 8 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. …
By David Scott, 376 words
Tanya Khovanova's Math Blog
Mathematics, applications of mathematics to life in general, and my life as a mathematician.
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Red, Yellow, and Green Hats
A new hat puzzle from Gribalko, reminding me of traffic lights. Puzzle. You and six of your mathematician friends each have a hat placed on your head. Each of you can see the hats of …
What's new
Updates on my research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics.
By Terence Tao.
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On several irrationality problems for Ahmes series
Vjeko Kovac and I have just uploaded to the arXiv our paper “On several irrationality problems for Ahmes series“. This paper resolves (or at least makes partial progress on) some open questions of Erdős and …
By Terence Tao, 898 words
Xena
Mathematicians learning Lean by doing.
By Kevin Buzzard.
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Lean in 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern …
By xenaproject, 1,780 words
Xi'an's Og
an attempt at bloggin, nothing more...
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