Brian P Katz (BK)

This one is real.

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This was helpful.

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Today I accidentally saw a high school production of Midsummer Night’s Dream.

“Pull a Dewey”?

a close up of a person 's face with a black background Alt: Switch from The Matrix, gif of her last line “Not like this.” Then going limp as her connection to the Matrix is severed.

I do like to let the day’s vibe guide me in selecting a starting word, but not like this!

Nope, bot. Check the fine print.

This is a joke. I’m not a maniac.

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I’ve got to find a new starting word!!!

It’s also a thing wearing on my in my language learning app. Like, yes, I can pick the sentence with overlapping themes, but JUST BECAUSE THEY SELL FRUIT DOES NOT MEAN THEY DONT ALSO HAVE MERCH. I suspect it’s partly because they are an “AI-first” company. I will not train tokens!

Apply to edit Focus?

Not to brag, but my teenagers want to cuddle on the couch with me every evening. To be fair, they do only communicate monosyllabically (meow).

My family used to do this! We'd donate through a relative whose job would match donations (i.e. double!) to dramatically increase the impact. 💜

The past tense is because the family fell apart, precipitated but not caused by me suggesting Lambda Legal as a possible recipient organization.

It's messy work in progress, but folks can attend my talk at 10am Pacific today if interested.

"Preliminary Learning Trajectories for Quantifiers from Casual Language"

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I just spelled something so wrong that Google autocarroted it to "twerk" in the slides for my talk this morning!

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1.5M views · 15K reactions | Saw-whet Owls are on the move! From the Boreal Forest of Canada down to the Northeast and mid-Atlantic where they spend the winter. We are part of Project Owlnet—a collab... Saw-whet Owls are on the move! From the Boreal Forest of Canada down to the Northeast and mid-Atlantic where they spend the winter. We are part of Project Owlnet—a collaborative effort to monitor...

Empirical proof for a priori truths.

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Does anyone have a good image of an equilateral triangular tiling that prints nicely?

We're going to make hyperbolic planes by hand by gluing 7 triangles at each vertex, so I need high-yield pages. 1-1.5" sides.

There’s a scene in The Great North in which a queer character asks polynomials how they are doing.

Representation matters.

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Otters are river/sea kittens. Raccoons are tree/trash kittens. Owls are sky kittens. Foxes are dog kittens.

I will not be taking questions.

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Why Should that Convince Me?: Teaching Toulmin Analysis Across the Curriculum Experienced provers employ a host of skills when assessing the validity of a justification, often without names for those skills. This paper offers an introduction to a lens called Toulmin analysis...

Working on it!

But it integrates a lot of my previous work. One piece is about Toulmin analysis (link). I've got another paper under review about a second major piece that does integrate more, but it will be a few more weeks/months. Thinking of writing a book.

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Katz out of the bag: CSULB math professor wins “Distinguished” award Brian Katz, associate math professor in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics department, was recently the recipient of the 2025 SoCal-Nevada Section Award for Distinguished College or…

Someone wrote a little pun-titled article about me!

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Some news!

The PRIMUS Editorial Board, on behalf of Taylor & Francis, is pleased to announce the selection of Brian P Katz (BK) of CSU Long Beach as Editor-in-Chief, starting in 2026.

The PRIMUS Editorial Board, on behalf of Taylor & Francis, is pleased to announce the selection of Brian P Katz (BK) of CSU Long Beach as Editor-in-Chief, starting in 2026.

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My set list for tomorrow is full of bangers.

Oh hey speaking of the SoCal-Nevada Section Meeting, @thewordninjabk.bsky.social is one of the invited speakers, due to receiving the Section Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics! The title of that talk is “Teaching Proofs as a Way of Knowing.”

I need to do a small poster that I would prefer to have some color, and image, and not to look like a joke. For digital release only.

Is Canva my right choice? My other idea is to use a branded set of PPT slides to get the design elements in there. I just don't do this stuff.

I am reading some f-ing incredible student reflections!!!!

"A mage, a twink, and a lesbian have to save the world..."

Ah, the three cardinal genders/sexualities.

The end you finally done it you’ve proven that the series converge is to pi squared over six you’ve published your work in a prestigious journal. you’ve been asked to your work mathematics conferences, your professor approaches you and i’m proud of you. I always knew you could do it. This problem has been unsolved for centuries. None of my other students could even touch it, but you not only approved that the serious conversion you found what it converses with a very elegant proof as the faculty position open in our university, are you interestedyou accept the offer and get to work as a professor the end.

I like fantasy video games.

Le sigh

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