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Spiral Shadows
Studying vector calculus tends to make you see space curves everywhere you go. Here’s a conical helix (or a helical cone?). A good way to understand the behavior of curves in space is to understand...
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When a Dollar is not a Dollar
There must be some way to capitalize on this through arbitrage, right?
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5/12/13 — Happy Right Triangle Day!
Happy Right Triangle Day! Today we celebrate a favorite geometric object: the 5-12-13 right triangle. Of course, the sides of this triangle satisfy the Pythagorean Theorem but one reason I like this...
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Infinite Prime Gaps
The mathematics world is abuzz with news that someone may have proved a weak version of the Twin Prime conjecture. A pair of numbers are called twin primes if the two numbers are both prime and they...
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Math Art: Building Sines
This is Building Sines, one of the pieces I will have on display at the 2013 Bridges Math and Art conference in Enschede, the Netherlands. Building Sines, by Patrick Honner Inspired by the...
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Decomposing Functions into Even and Odd Parts
When it comes to functions, the concepts even and odd have always been important to me as a teacher. Connecting the algebraic and geometric representations of mathematical ideas is a primary goal in...
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Speed Limit Infimum
I claim that this is the minimum maximum speed. Have you ever seen anything lower?
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MathMatters! at TEDxNYED
I am very proud of my students, Ahmed and Jason, who presented their peer-to-peer math enrichment program MathMatters! at this year’s TEDxNYED conference. Ahmed and Jason created a program where NYC...
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Presenting at MOVES Conference
I am very excited to be a part of the inaugural MOVES conference at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City! The focus of the conference is the Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects, and it...
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