Someone I know brought up a good question and I'd like the opinion of others on this. Is it OK for a new assistant professor (in the math dept.) to date a PhD student in another department (in this case Biology department.) I see nothing wrong since there'll never be a conflict of interest at all. I guess maybe it might look bad that faculty are ( Read more... )

I used to be annoyed that when I text "fuck" it defaults to "dual", but lately, it's just made functional analysis more interesting to think about.

e.g.: Let X be a set of people. Let X^* be the set of people they've "dualed" (the "dual" space of X). Show that X^** := (X^*)^* contains X.

EDIT: OK, the statement isn't necessarily true unless you ( Read more... )

I'm looking for songs about math or tangentially related to math, numbers, or counting. I'm specifically concerned with the lyrical content, not mathematically-devised melodies or instrumental backing (such as mathrock).

Any suggestions? So far I have:

• Mathematics Little Boots
  
• Who's Stopping You? Semisonic
  
• Three Small Words (JatP Theme) Josie and ( Read more... )

http://people.ee.duke.edu/~wrankin/misc/tensor.html

Psyche Corporation has a song called "Whirring World" about the Fibonacci Sequence.. You can hear it here ( Read more... )

Hello ( Read more... )

Math is like cake ( Read more... )

A choose your own adventure book written by a pure mathematics grad that teaches you about parallel universes and quantum theory: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1790000379/post/1420054542.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE5cHe6c3s

( See panel 3 for the math reference )