Ben Reiniger @bmreiniger@mathstodon.xyz

The dLX (pronounced "d-Lex", as in "lexicon"), is a new 60-sided, alphabetical die from The Dice Lab. Sixty is enough for us to get a letter distribution that is close to the distribution in the English language, so they can be used for word search games! https://youtu.be/9T3zCsyx98g

Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding (https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/recreational-mathematics/origametry-mathematical-methods-paper-folding), new book coming out October 31 by @tomhull

I haven't seen anything more than the blurb linked here and the limited preview on Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=LdX7DwAAQBAJ), but it looks interesting and worth waiting for.

Preparing the maths can be a mess.
Hope the talk will not be one.

Tired: Necessary evil
Wired: Necessary and sufficient evil

Closed quasigeodesics on the dodecahedron (https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-report-new-discovery-about-the-dodecahedron-20200831/), paths that start at a vertex and go straight across each edge until coming back to the same vertex from the other side. Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04131, https://doi.org/10.1080/10586458.2020.1712564

I saw this on Numberphile a few months back (video linked in article) but now it's on _Quanta_.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has an R frontend to awk, called auk.
https://cornelllabofornithology.github.io/auk/

mathstodon.xyz now has a live preview and completion of LaTeX!
This has been on my to-do list for a long time. You no longer need to worry if LaTeX will display properly or not.

Nice little bit of card-shuffling mathematics, but also an excellent presentation that takes advantage of the medium.
https://fredhohman.com/card-shuffling/

New entry!
An Optimal Solution for the Muffin Problem
Article by Richard E. Chatwin
In collections: Attention-grabbing titles, Food, Fun maths facts, Protocols and strategies
The muffin problem asks us to divide \(m\) muffins into pieces and assign each of those pieces to one of \(s\) students so that the sizes of the pieces assigned to each student total \(m/s\), with the objective being to maximize...
URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08726v2
PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.08726v2
Entry: https://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/AnOptimalSolutionfortheMuffinProblem

I need help finding the hole in this argument...

Let K be a CM number field, K+ its maximal real subfield, k the 2-part of K with subfield k+ likewise. Suppose K has a purely imaginary unit a. Then by Remak [1], a is of the form \sqrt{-u} for a totally positive non-square unit u of K+. The degree of K over k is odd, therefore the norm N_{K/k}(a) is also purely imaginary, and a unit. Therefore a totally positive non-square unit exists in k+, and moreover it is found similarly.

i was taking pictures of it and it was like "oh? you desire a Model? well let me come closer"

The set of all sets which don't contain themselves is coming from inside the set 😳

Untangling random polygons: https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/untangling-random-polygons-and-other-things

Repeatedly rescaling midpoint polygons always leads to an ellipse.

Ah, the two genders:
- tautological
- vacuous

We start warning 'no mask' like 'eye contact' on selfies when.

It's 5/8, or Almost The Worst Approximation to Φ day!

Is there a term for an $n$-regular graph which can have its vertices $n$-colored so that each vertex has all $n$ colors among its neighbors? (For example, a cycle whose length is a multiple of 4 works for n=2, and the triangular prism for n=3).

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Let \(K\) be a cyclic number field over \(\mathbb{Q}\) of degree \(q=7\) with Galois group \(G\) and consider the \(\mathbb{F}_2\) algebra over \(G\), also known as the group ring. This is isomorphic to \(\mathbb{F}_2[x]/(x^q+1)\). In the case \(q=7\), the ideal \((x^q+1)\) splits mod \(2\) as \((x-1)(x^4+x^2+x+1)(x^4+x^2+x)\). So even though the Galois group is cyclic, the \(\mathbb{F}_2\) algebra over it is not.

How to be a mathematician:

Definition: An object that does what we want.

Example: Some objects don't do what we want.

Definition: An object is called normal if it *really* does what we want.