Robert (Bob) Bosch

Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize | Quanta Magazine The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

For nearly 80 years, an algorithm called the simplex method has been one of the most widely used tools for when a logistical decision needs to be made under complex constraints. A new update makes it faster than ever. www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-...

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Gerhard Richter, Seestück, oil on canvas, 1970

What are folks’ recommendations for places that 3D print in metal (say, for math sculptures)?

I never have printed in metal before, but I’ve got a couple of designs that I’m really happy with…(and there was prize money from the math fest art show!)

#mathsky
#mathart

An open knight's tour of a 128x128 chessboard. The knight starts in the lower left corner, finishes near the lower right corner, and visits each of the sixteen 32x32 regions in the same order that they'd be visited by a second-stage Hilbert curve. #mathart

Orange goo containing plankton floats over and into the fractal surface of infinite holes. The surface is based upon an Apollonian gasket.

“Infinite Holes
and the Cosmic Goo”

10 inch square

I was delighted to learn that this #watercolor and pigment ink #painting won Best Photograph, Painting, or Print at the MAA Mathfest Art Exhibit 2025.

#mathart 
Available

Well deserved!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Not receiving a salary raise in an era of rampant inflation is essentially a pay cut. But so is the laying off of support staff whose jobs faculty are expected to absorb.

Doing tech support, extra advising, admin assistant duties, etc. = less time for the work of being a teacher / faculty member.

This is how you interview people from the Trump admin; past , present, and future. Full stop.

So well done.

The US will stop making pennies in 2026, which got me thinking about what to do with a giant collection of too-expensive, low-value coins. Here's what I made with them.

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Gary is a former student of mine! I need to pick up Vera. I loved his last two novels.

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path is unicursal. If you start in the lower left corner and follow the path move by move, you will visit each square once and only once and end near the lower right corner. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

Shiny angular jewelry with black and white accents.

Getting excited for the Bridges fashion show tonight! On the runway will be the world premiere of my black and white rhodium plated knight's tour jewelry!

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path is unicursal. If you start in the lower left corner and follow the path move by move, you will visit each square once and only once and end near the lower right corner. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path is unicursal. If you start in the lower left corner and follow the path move by move, you will visit each square once and only once and end near the lower right corner. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path is unicursal. If you start in the lower left corner and follow the path move by move, you will visit each square once and only once and end near the lower right corner. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

Thank you, Paula!

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path is unicursal. If you start in the lower left corner and follow the path move by move, you will visit each square once and only once and end near the lower right corner. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path is unicursal. If you start in the lower left corner and follow the path move by move, you will visit each square once and only once and end near the lower right corner. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

I'm interested in learning how to do this (either by hand or with a machine).

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path can be traced without lifting one's writing implement from the surface of the paper. Inspiration: Szpakowski's linear ideas. #mathart #mathsart #orms #chess

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path can be traced without lifting one's writing implement from the surface of the paper. This tour is close to having 180-degree rotational symmetry and vertical and horizontal mirror symmetries. #mathart #mathsart #chess

A knight's tour of a 32x32 chessboard. The knight's path can be traced without lifting one's writing implement from the surface of the paper. This tour is close to having 180-degree rotational symmetry and vertical and horizontal mirror symmetries. #mathart #chess

Rangoli's are where folk art, religious practices and generative processes meet.

The process for making these - exclusively by women and girls in front of their houses - is pretty much entirely procedural. These are from a Rangoli pattern book that I picked up in India more than 15 years ago.