http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything.html

Erotic equations: Love meets mathematics on film | CultureLab | NewScientist -- [Sex and math may not be the most obvious pairing, but Edward Frenkel knows otherwise. The 41-year-old mathematician and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, sacrificed his clothes and €100,000 to show the world the beauty of mathematics. The ( Read more... )

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This is perhaps the least sexy thing out there, but does anyone know when Canadian universities are sending out their acceptance / rejection letters for graduate school applicants?

I've applied to: UBC, U Alberta, U Ottawa, U Toronto, and McGill.

Any idea when they're going to reject me?

Now that Grisha Perelman became the First Clay Prize Awardee, what about the rest of the Millenium Problems?

Poll *****

Details and discussion are here. Thanks in advance for your input!

Poll How do you learn a new math subfield beyond your specialty?

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Hello,
I'm at a small liberal arts university studying mathematics. I'm particularly drawn to algebra. Group theory and its (co)homology seem interesting to me. The problem I'm faced with though, is that there are only two other people in my groups class, and one was the professor. The exact same thing happened in my rings class, my galois theory ( Read more... )

Futurama vs real life. (For those of you who don't read Russian: the two words on the second photo are "grocery" and "bakery").
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Mathematically Correct Breakfast: slicing a bagel into two delicious interconnected rings.

(It's a bizarre title: I'd like to see a breakfast that wasn't mathematically correct)