Roots of Unity
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Roots of Unity is a place for me to write about the mathematics I find beautiful, fun, and surprising, along with other science topics, some with connections to math, and some without. In 2015 I left a postdoc in the math department at the University of Utah to write about math and science full-time.
Roots of Unity
4y ago
It’s time to say goodbye to the blog
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Roots of Unity
4y ago
The strange power of complex analysis
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Roots of Unity
4y ago
Remembering “Euler’s spoilers,” who showed that special magic squares exist
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Roots of Unity
4y ago
BEAM program manager Ruthi Hortsch shares her love of Faltings’s theorem
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This mathematician turns her research into fashion and toys
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4y ago
Ben Orlin shares his favorite fractal curve
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Resources for students, parents and other learners
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Roots of Unity
4y ago
Creating poetry with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
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Roots of Unity
4y ago
Extolling the many virtues of the Perron-Frobenius theorem and linear algebra
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Roots of Unity
4y ago
Christine Ladd-Franklin received a PhD in 1926 for work completed in 1882
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