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Professor of Computer Science; Professor of Mathematics.
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Light rays bouncing in twisted tubes

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Gaussian prime spirals

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Light reflecting off Christmas-tree balls

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Tying knots with reflecting lightrays

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Topple height of randomly stacked bricks

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Why are matrices ubiquitous but hypermatrices rare?

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Exploding primes

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Why are there 1024 Hamiltonian cycles on an icosahedron?

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Rolling a random walk on a sphere

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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?
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Gaussian prime spirals (2)
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Interesting Applications of the Classical Stokes Theorem?
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Refereeing a Paper
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Light rays bouncing in twisted tubes (2)
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Taking “Zooming in on a point of a graph” seriously.
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Modern Mathematical Achievements Accessible to Undergraduates
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Why do we use $\epsilon$ and $\delta$?
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Trapped rays bouncing between two convex bodies
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Reciprocals of Fibonacci numbers
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How to/Can you get a PhD position when you need more experience first?
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How to efficiently vacuum the house
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Naive definition of surface area doesn’t work?
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What are some examples of journals that will accept undergraduate student research?
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Interesting mathematical documentaries
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Knot security (When to trust your life with a knot)
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Physics and Church–Turing Thesis
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More open problems
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Nash embedding theorem for 2D manifolds
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Magic trick based on deep mathematics
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covering disks with smaller disks
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Is “Napkin conjecture” open ? (ORIGAMI)
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Can randomness add computability?
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Are there any very hard unknots?
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Shape of snowflakes
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Interesting and Accessible Topics in Graph Theory
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What could be some potentially useful mathematical databases? (2)
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Partitioning a polygon into convex parts
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A geometric Ramsey problem
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Are there other nice math books close to the style of Tristan Needham?
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