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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
- Physics can be bad or worse or better or even clear
- Physicists can also joke
- 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
- What would you rather play: this or this and this?
- A different musical challenge Close-up
- Gramophone Close-up
- Random structures in real life: Ice Cave, Iceland beach, Ireland beach, Armenian mountains, Chewing gum on a sidewalk in Reykjavík
- Multi-scale phenomena: materials, music
- The famous picture of water mechanics and modern animation
- The complicated math behind a boat
- Some quantum mechanics: artwork, confusion, real life, the cat theme: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
- Some math in popular culture: SpongeBob, Simpsons, RoundOffError, Maxwell in vacuum and medium.
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