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I’m giving a talk online tomorrow at the 2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, in the Special Session on Non-Associative Rings and Algebras. The organizers ...

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You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. You might remember ...

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Image credits: Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, prolific Japanese mathematician whose work has ...

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Abstract: ChatGPT was released in late November 2022, making a significant impact globally. Following this release, numerous domestic and international open-source projects for large model training ...

At the risk of resurfacing near-traumatic feelings for any readers, I want to share the introduction to the first chapter of the undergraduate linear algebra textbook: I remember interrupting my ...

A 3D-printed decuplet crystal, skeleton, and nerves of a big algebra designed by Daniel Bedats. Printed with the Stratasys J750 3D printer at ISTA’s Miba Machine Shop. Symmetry is not just a question ...