Me and my high school physics teacher at my PhD graduation

One cool thing about teaching this course on tiling theory is that I now see tiling patterns and frieze patterns everywhere I go. I hope I continue snapping photos of them in the future.

Here are photos from inside a beautiful hotel in Utica, a city in upstate NY. Its maximum

Here's a puzzler from my daughter's maths homework.

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Nonlinear model reduction to spectral submanifolds is now available even under general (e.g., chaotic) forcing. Asymptotic expansions for generalized
steady states of aperiodically forced mechanical systems also follow from these results.
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Steven Strogatz Grant Sanderson Prof Steven. I watched the video and was completely blown away. No way I would have thought a cycloid would show up out of nowhere and how it got related to Snell's law. Totally cool !

Steven Strogatz Expanding a bit on my question above. Take a group of 4 of those terms and multiply by 1,0, -1, 0. Then add up successive groups of 4. And you get a periodic function, a sine or cosine, that has a period that is incommensurate with the 'period' of the group of 4. Seems odd.

This GeoGebra app by Walther Stuzka, a retired physics teacher at a high school in Vienna, Austria, lets you explore the famous brachistochrone problem (path of quickest descent):
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For background, see this Grant Sanderson video :
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Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz is the nerdiest and most surprisingly entertaining book on math I’ve ever read. Check it out if you want to learn more about calculus

THE JOY OF WHY podcast is now available on YouTube!

In this episode, Terry Tao weighs in on what 'good' mathematics is.

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Drop a message in a bottle into the sea of a black hole. Is it possible to decode the message from waves of radiation? Stephen Hawking said no. But Leonard Susskind proved him wrong. Hear more on “The Joy of Why” podcast. listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-306-s

What Makes for ‘Good’ Math? | JOW Podcast now in YT:

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