Generalizing Problem 1 from the 1959 IMO
The first problem in the first International Mathematical Olympiad was this. Prove that is irreducible for…
Author: patrickmilano
Belief Bias in Math Class
Several years ago I was returning graded midterms to a calculus class. One particularly bright student…
Everyone is Wrong About Quotation Marks
Convention dictates that commas and periods should always go inside quotation marks. This has always irked…
Sums of Two Cubes
This post was inspired by a joke from Futurama in which two robots laugh at the…
Puck Luck: Understanding PDO
Ice hockey analytics have improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Many of the best…
Stylometry and the Pauline Epistles
Stylometry is the statistical analysis of literary style. It includes the study of documents’ quantitative attributes…