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Associate Professor (Clemson) | AIMS Lecturer (South Africa) | Author: "Visual Algebra" (forthcoming) | YouTuber | First Gen | Homesteader | Dad to Ida & Felix

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And with the extra exclamation mark too, out of spite!! 🀣

10.10.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d like to know how they plan to hold them accountable when they’re all just going to get blanket pardons on their way out. Otherwise it’s just a statement that his intern got from ChatGPT.

10.10.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How else would one concisely express the number of set partitions of [2n] into n blocks of size 2?

10.10.2025 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mathematical Finance event in Wellington called the New Zealand All Black-Scholes

10.10.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I considered using the San Francisco Unicorn Subgroups, but passed because I suspect not many others on here follow cricket, and only you would get the math reference.

10.10.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The most ridiculous is definitely the one on the left.

10.10.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Numerical Linear Algebra event in Florida called the Tampa Bay Rayleigh quotients

09.10.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Group theory event in India called the Lucknow Supersolvable Giants

09.10.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Taylor series event in Spain called Real Analytic Madrid.

09.10.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Back-to-back topology events in the Twin Cities called the Minnesota Hopf Lynx and the Minnesota Wild Knots

09.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

My poor hometown team. Too soon. 😭

09.10.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Algebraic number theory event in Southern California called The Los Angeles Ramified Primes

09.10.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Lotka-Volterra event in Tennessee called The Nashville Predator–Prey Models

09.10.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Number theory event in Minneapolis called the Minnesota Twin Prime Conjecture

09.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

An Alexandrov geometry event in New York called The Brooklyn Polyhedral Nets

09.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Geoduck

09.10.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I heard it from one of our recent university provost candidates in his interview. He was quoting someone, but I didn’t remember who.

08.10.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I heard someone recently say: β€œAI won’t take your job. Someone proficient with AI will take your job.” I think that might be the most accurate prediction.

08.10.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
06.10.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC.

From the QR code:

β€œβ€¦textile art to represent both our home in the Blue Ridge foothills and the end point of the monarch's sojourn in Central Mexico. The left wing is inspired by the Tenango,
the traditional embroidery work of the Otomi people. The right wing shows a Cherokee seven point star quilt pattern, representing southern Appalachia's rich quilting history, as well as the indigenous influences upon the art form. In both cultures, such large and detailed textiles often involve family or community members working on a single piece together, making them symbols of
cooperation and unity.”

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC. From the QR code: β€œβ€¦textile art to represent both our home in the Blue Ridge foothills and the end point of the monarch's sojourn in Central Mexico. The left wing is inspired by the Tenango, the traditional embroidery work of the Otomi people. The right wing shows a Cherokee seven point star quilt pattern, representing southern Appalachia's rich quilting history, as well as the indigenous influences upon the art form. In both cultures, such large and detailed textiles often involve family or community members working on a single piece together, making them symbols of cooperation and unity.”

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC, with the butterfly lemma hidden on its underside!

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC, with the butterfly lemma hidden on its underside!

Clemson has been designated a National Monarch Butterfly City, and there is a public art installation of 20 fiberglass butterflies all around town.

Look closely, one of them appears to have some hidden mathematics on its underside! #IllustratingMath #Mathober

05.10.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I read and re-read this sentence and was very confused, until i realized that it wasn’t about Marjorie Taylor Greene…

03.10.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not a fan of him at all, but he graduated summa cum laude with a double major from the top public school in his state, and then went to Yale Law School. He’s very bright.

02.10.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately he’s both

02.10.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. I have no words…

02.10.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lavazza 2.2 lb bags are $19 on their website. As a Seattle native, I can vouch for its quality.

29.09.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does that mean that academic administrators will be enjoying the next life while the rest of us will be overburdened with paperwork? 😬

29.09.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember him at the Portland Juggling Festival years ago, I think it was 1996 or 97.

28.09.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
ESPN's MLB page, 15 minutes after Cal Raleigh hit his 60th HR (and his 59th). No mention of him, but Aaron Judge hit his 50th and 51st!

ESPN's MLB page, 15 minutes after Cal Raleigh hit his 60th HR (and his 59th). No mention of him, but Aaron Judge hit his 50th and 51st!

Someone tell ESPN. This is their "top headlines" 15 minutes after he hit #60. πŸ™„

25.09.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Question for #MathSky:

What is your favorite result, trick, or technique involving generating functions?

Whenever I ask a question like this I always learn something new.

25.09.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

Departmental colloquium: everyone knows your name, but nobody understands wtf you’re saying.

24.09.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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