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Mathematics
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Making Thinking Visible: Some Examples of No-Code (Vibe) Coding
I was thrilled recently when my friend Josh Brake mentioned me in his Substack post about “The Forward Deployed Educator.”…
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Drawing with Circles: Vibe coding the Fourier Transformation
In my presentations I sometimes talk about my four years in engineering school as being something of a disaster. The…
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Sine Language: Circling Pythagoras Through Sound and Color
This semester I am teaching a course on Human Creativity X AI in Education. (More about our first week here.)…
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Connecting Math to Verbo-Visual Art: New Publication
Ambigrams are a form of visual wordplay in which words are written/designed such that they can be read or interpreted in…
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Artificial Intelligence, Math / Truth & other ambigrams
Lovers of mathematics relish challenges, enjoying the manipulation of numbers and geometrical figures, seeking and creating patterns. Their fascination sometimes…
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An Euclidean coincidence
FYI, this is a somewhat pointless blog post around a somewhat funny coincidence that popped into my life the other…
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Plugin’ into superpowers
I have been playing with couple of the newly released ChatGPT plugins (you have to have the paid version to…
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ChatGPT3 writes a Mathematical Proof (in verse)
Many years ago I got interested in writing poetry about mathematics (all archived on my Math-Poetry page). Just to be…
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Fibonacci’s Poem
Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing…
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Pi(e) day, 2019
A design created in celebration of Pi-day, 2019. (More context about the day here and more about the number itself…
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Ambigrams & Mathematics at HYSA
The Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy (HYSA) is a school designed for highly gifted students in grades 7-12 affiliated with…
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Fractals, ambigrams & more
Photo & and design © Punya Mishra.The photo of bubbles was taken with cell phone camera (equipped with a macro…
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Squaring a circle on Pi day!
Pie upon reflection is nothing but 3.14!A new version of a design I had created a year ago.Original idea stolen…
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Wordclouds, mathematics and building a better teacher
Wordcloud created from all the words in the wikipedia page for “mathematics education” What does a teacher need to know…
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Mathematical insight on reality & you (yes, you!)
I have always been intrigued by the manner in which everyday ideas get “mathematicized” (if that’s a word). For instance, the other day,…
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Infinite Regress: New ambigram / visual pun
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so…
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Math & Visual Wordplay: New video
The word “math” written such that it has rotational symmetryi.e. it reads the same even when rotated by 180-degrees. The…
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Creativity in mathematics and beyond
Our series of articles related to the broad topic of Rethinking technology and creativity for the 21st century in the journal TechTrends continues with…
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Ambigrams & Math: In one embeddable ebook Ambigrams & Math: In one embeddable ebook
Over the past two years Gaurav Bhatnagar and I have written five columns for the Math education journal At Right…
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Paradoxes & Ambigrams: Article 2 of 2 Paradoxes & Ambigrams: Article 2 of 2
A few months ago I had posted about publication of the first of two articles on mathematics, visual wordplay and paradoxes. The second…
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Mathematical paradoxes & ambigrams: New article Mathematical paradoxes & ambigrams: New article
I have always loved paradoxes so it is with great pleasure that the fourth article in our series on Art…
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Poetry, Daisies And Cobras: A Class With Manjul Bhargava Poetry, Daisies And Cobras: A Class With Manjul Bhargava
An amazing presentation by Manjul Bhargava (Fields medal winner in Mathematics) to school children in India. See how he effortlessly…
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Deep-Play on Michigan Radio Stateside with Cynthia Canty Deep-Play on Michigan Radio Stateside with Cynthia Canty
I am a huge fan of Stateside with Cynthia Canty, a radio show on Michigan Radio. So imagine my excitement when I…
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Deep-Play: Creativity in Math & Art through Visual Wordplay Deep-Play: Creativity in Math & Art through Visual Wordplay
I have been creating ambigrams for years now… and I feel extremely lucky that what started as a personal interest…
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Why math ed sucks (not just in India) Why math ed sucks (not just in India)
My friend Hartosh Bal (author of A Certain Ambiguity, a mathematical novel) has a piece in Caravan Magazine titled “Why…
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Self-similarity in math & ambigrams 3/3 Self-similarity in math & ambigrams 3/3
Self-similarity in geometry is the idea of repeating a similar shape (often at a different scale) over and over again. In other…
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Of math and ambigrams: Exploring Symmetry Of math and ambigrams: Exploring Symmetry
Ambigram for Symmetry displaying rotational symmetry I have been writing a series of articles for At Right Angles (a mathematics…
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Of clouds, lentils and deep geometries Of clouds, lentils and deep geometries
Back in March of 2012 I was on a plane flying back from the SITE2012 conference in Austin, Texas and…
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Of Math and Ambigrams Of Math and Ambigrams
Mathematicians love puzzles—they love to play with numbers and shapes but often their love can turn to words and other areas that,…