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- For experts only
- When the obvious pattern breaks: the Bernoulli triangle and the related math story
- When the test scores are normally distributed but this is another option
- Physics can be bad or worse or better or even clear
- Physicists can also joke or not
- No optional material
- On handwriting
- How to write Greek letters (by Olga Korosteleva, CSULB)
- 1^2+2^2+…+n^2=n(n+1)(2n+1)/6
- 1^3+2^3+…+n^3=(1+2+…+n)^2
- Study of prime numbers: When an explicit formula does not help so you need a joke
- An egg?
- Two spirals; Jakob Bernoulli ended up with the wrong one!
- When a strict local martingale hits in the wallet
- The famous picture of water mechanics and modern animation
- The complicated math behind a boat
- Some quantum mechanics: artwork, confusion, real life, About Schrodinger and his cat
- Some math in popular culture: SpongeBob, Simpsons, Maxwell in vacuum and medium, the famous school
- Careful with calculators: Round-off error1, Round-off error2
- Random structures in real life. Gaussian Fields: Ice Cave, Stones-1, Stones-2; Corner growth: Iceland beach, Ireland beach, Armenian mountains; Poisson point process: Chewing gum on a sidewalk in Reykjavík
- A short paper; some details could be here
- One-line paper and a much longer version [Note: Elkies was born in 1966]
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