Math prof and award winning author at @TorontoMet. Nine books including Dots and Lines and The Sky Took Us. Math and math memes. I won’t grade you. Much.
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The topology of the pants one always gets people
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Normalize the Zeus lightning bolt symbol for contradiction
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The chromatic number of eight-dimensional Euclidean space is at least 25
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What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget for some reason?
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Who is an actor that only gets 5-10 minutes of screen time but completely steals the entire movie?
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Many of my colleagues say the same thing: students are not coming to office hours anymore. When they get stuck on a math problem, they are asking AI
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Remember to be respectful in comments. I'll turn them off if necessary
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When you get stuck in math, just point to the answer
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Computer scientists will say this tree is upside down
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O(1): love it!
O(n): good
O(n²): that will do
O(n¹⁰): ehhh
O(2ⁿ): I'll be dead sooner
O(n!): more than the lifetime of the cosmos
O(nⁿ): you kidding?
O(n↑↑n): um...
O(A(n,n)): bye
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Good news: The billionaires have arrived at the conference to solve all the open math problems with AI
Bad news: They still need the mathematicians to referee the proofs for free
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Physicist: 41, 43, 47, 53, 61, 71, 83, 97, 113, and 131 are all prime, so the pattern must continue
Mathematician: Careful, patterns can be deceptive. You need a rigorous proof for such a claim
Data scientist: None of this is making any money
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