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Generalizing Problem 1 from the 1959 IMO

The first problem in the first International Mathematical Olympiad was this. Prove that is irreducible for…

Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 by patrickmilano

Belief Bias in Math Class

Several years ago I was returning graded midterms to a calculus class. One particularly bright student…

Posted on May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 by patrickmilano

Everyone is Wrong About Quotation Marks

Convention dictates that commas and periods should always go inside quotation marks. This has always irked…

Posted on October 31, 2019November 1, 2019 by patrickmilano

Sums of Two Cubes

This post was inspired by a joke from Futurama in which two robots laugh at the…

Posted on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 by patrickmilano

Puck Luck: Understanding PDO

Ice hockey analytics have improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Many of the best…

Posted on July 19, 2019July 20, 2019 by patrickmilano

Stylometry and the Pauline Epistles

Stylometry is the statistical analysis of literary style. It includes the study of documents’ quantitative attributes…

Posted on July 5, 2019October 23, 2019 by patrickmilano
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