Cubes_Art

Here are four ways I’ve found to solve an nxnxn cube to embed a trefoil knot. Five layers is the smallest cube I’ve been able to put this knot on. On a 9cube, I’ve found solutions that use 2 colors of thread, 2 faces, and a solution that leaves the reverse side solved as solid colors.

In 2024, 300 billionaires and their families donated 19% of all money spent on federal elections. Billionaires should spend less on elections and more in taxes.

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

I made this pattern a few weeks ago and forgot to post. I’m not sure what the name for this type of link is, but it’s kind of the opposite of a Brunnian link. Each component is linked with every other component and removing any component does not change this property.

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

Three children — ages 5, 8, and 11 — and their teacher didn’t come home to their families last night because this country has decided that mass shootings are an acceptable price to pay for unfettered access to guns.

Women be shreddin

Really sorry to hear this. I HIGHLY Christopher’s jewelry. I’ve bought several pieces from him as gifts for my partner and they never disappoint.

Frieze Group p1m1

She played the wind perfectly

I’ve probably doodled this dozens of times, but I just really like this knot.

At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

Great finish!

Umpires and coaches discussed what happens if a ball were to hit the roof during the ground rules meeting pregame before Game 1 Brewers Third Base Coach Matt Erickson joked, "Haven't seen it here in six years, so it will happen tonight"

New video, on a surprising linkage motion that showed up when I was playing with chains of bevel gears. youtu.be/ujEZUFNgf50

Very excited to present a stunning classification theorem of Noble Polyhedra by Connor Hill, on Numberphile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9533...

if you think about it, winning via a direct connection to the divine father of all creation through His appointed emissary on Earth is a much more egregious cheating scandal than banging on trash cans

Y’all. The nyt bot failed at Wordle today. Has that happened before?

#Sciartseptember Prompt: Graph Thinking about Cayley-Graphs of Groups

Here’s a knot on the 9-cube that my colleague @cubicskies.bsky.social and I call the great-great-granny knot. It’s the connected sum on four trefoil knots.

RT @JomboyMedia: Payton Tolle realized he had an immaculate inning right before the ninth pitch

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

Seriously, nytgames??

Mobile and desktop friendly web app to practice and demonstrate understanding of row reducing matrices: matrix.clontz.org/rref

MoMath will host a free online event on Friday, Aug 28 at 12:00pm US Eastern time premiering a new video by Sabetta Matsumoto, Tim Reinhardt, Jürgen Richter-Gebert, and me, on hyperboloids made out of sticks and how they move. Details and registration at momath.org/hyperboloids/

This is the FTO (face-turning octahedron) twisty puzzle. It’s now an official WCA event And I think it’s lovely. Here, I’ve solved it to a pattern that is striped when viewed from 4 vertices, and concentric squares from 2 vertices.

HISTORY FOR JOSHUA BAEZ! HE’S THE FIRST PLAYER IN MLB HISTORY TO HOMER IN HIS FIRST THREE CAREER AT-BATS!

I like this a lot :)

I cut flowers from my garden today and put them in three Growth Vases. We created them in 2009, using a branching growth algorithm to generate the form. 17 years later, I’m still fascinated by the same question: what can we make when we use nature’s algorithms for growth to create art and design?

At @joinmaa.bsky.social Math Fest? So is @hanusadesign.com Mathematical Jewelry. Stop by Booth 321 all the way at the back of the Exhibits! See you today, tomorrow, and Friday! #mathjewelry

Excited to have my art Topological Trio included in the Bridges 2026 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design, held this week in Galway, Ireland. My related paper is also part of the program. #MathArt #LEGO

Fun fact!* Fascists coined the word “antipasta” *I totally just made this up

Well, I mean, the framers of the Constitution didn’t /say/ that compressing the sum of human culture into high-dimensional vector space wasn’t fair use, so…

Check out Siobhan Roberts’s NYT article about truncated icosahedra and more—featuring a bunch of photos of Jon-Paul Wheatley’s hand-stitched soccer balls. (12p.com) ⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️

Trent Reznor makes tiny blocks of hay: Nine Inch Bales

Nearly 1 million students take College Algebra yearly, it has the highest failure rate of any intro course. Dave Kung says our curriculum hasn't caught up. His new Math Values post shares what 60 leaders agreed needs to change. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4ychJIP

CLOPEN in the wild

Anyone out there play Go and want to help/appear in a Numberphile video? www.bradyharanblog.com/help-brady

This is from the new WH report on the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History, calling for what the museum *should* say about slavery and human rights. One question: those 750,000 people who died in the Civil War to end slavery… who killed them? And why?

Over 5,500 mathematical artworks can now be browsed in an attractive new gallery-wall layout on the Bridges website, thanks to the efforts of Nathan Selikoff: gallery.bridgesmathart.org/gallery?seed...

Eric Badlands Booker sets a new world record by chugging one gallon of lemonade in 21 seconds

In the speech he delivered on 3/7/15 at the Pettus Bridge he linked the violent events at Selma to a long history of struggle, defeat, and ultimate victory. That struggle was about, and itself was, “the true meaning of America.” youtu.be/gvAIvauhQGQ?...

This paper has been a REALLY long time coming. It's about a course I taught for many years called Tools of Inquiry, in which I try to teach students to ask and explore their own mathematical questions, including with technology. It's a little like an introduction to research experience at scale!

Compared with the initial AI images that the administration posted, this Arc de Trump is giving serious Stonehenge vibes.