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Magic trick based on deep mathematics
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Teaching homology via everyday examples
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Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics
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Applications of knot theory
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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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What part is left unsolved in the Unknotting problem? (after results of Bar-Natan, Khovanov, Kronheimer and Mrowka)
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Do finite groups acting on a ball have a fixed point?
Oct 18, 2011
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Magic trick based on deep mathematics
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Drawing of the eight Thurston geometries?
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Teaching the fundamental group via everyday examples
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Why can you turn clothing right-side-out?
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Typesetting the "define equals" symbol
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Why does the Mandelbrot set contain (slightly deformed) copies of itself?
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Hyperbolic metric on the torus?