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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 2d

The Rising Sea around the world, part 3: here in Los Angeles -- with a normal-sized cat for scale.

Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 2d

The Rising Sea around the world, part 2: here on display -- with other excellent titles -- at the @mathmoves.bsky.social library.

Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 2d

The Rising Sea around the world: here on display at the Clay Math(s) Institute annual meeting in Oxford UK (official publication date is 21 October).

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 7d

I haven't read the whole list(!), but saw some excellent math books for unbelievably friendly prices...

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 9d

Our 70% Off Sale is live! 📚

Save on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects until October 31. Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

#ReadUP

Graphic reads "Annual Sale. 70% Off. October 1-31"

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 12d

This is what happens when Wittgenstein edits your math textbook.

#science #philosophysky #math #mathematics #academia #philsky

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 15d

Walking the Carcassonne ramparts as Every Day Is Like Sunday floats up from the town. Love that, musically, it's always the 80s in Europe.

Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 19d

Brilliant piece

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 19d

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

blog.djnavarro.net

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 22d

Celebrate the communication medium that's inherently local!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 22d

How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzles.

Paul J. Nahin's The Mathematical Radio is now available in #paperback. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Math #Mathematics #History

The Mathematical Radio: Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband by Paul J. Nahin

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · 23d

Found around the house

A handwritten document labeled Takeaways, with a list of three items. Strategic: MMP will not work in a straightforward way in characteristic p. [The word straightforward is underlined.] Personal: Be satisfied resolving to toric singularities. Activist: If you want to stir up trouble, look for E_8.

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · Feb 13

A personal highlight from the Electric Dreams show at the @tatemodern was Mary Martin's Permutation of Six, 1966

This work repeats and arranges six shapes using generative number patterns.

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Brendan Maher @bmaher.bsky.social · Sep 10

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Sep 5

Been going through the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement. First, the settlement is for $3,000 per work for 500,000 works.

Despite what this NYTimes article states, it is not for 500,000 authors. @nmamatas.bsky.social pointed this out and I confirmed it. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

www.nytimes.com

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Sep 6

Here's a Q&A from the American Association of Publishers that unpicks some of the details about the settlement: publishers.org/wp-content/u...

publishers.org

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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · Sep 6

Billionaire Larry Ellison helped land top QB Bryce Underwood for Michigan, his wife’s alma mater. Now he’s investing hundreds of millions at Oxford University — and tapped former UM president Santa Ono to lead an institute there.
www.wsj.com/business/lar...

Larry Ellison Is Spending Billions to Reshape Oxford and His Own Legacy

The Oracle founder is spending big around the 900-year-old university campus, and even bought a famous local pub. His Silicon Valley management style is already raising hackles.

www.wsj.com

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Sep 2

#pentagons5eva

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 2

"This is an entertaining book for those interested in number theory or geometry, but there’s a good-sized helping of digressions on history, art, and science too" Daniel Goldin, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee WI.

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Pentagons and Pentagrams

A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various cultures

press.princeton.edu

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · Jul 25

"A recurring flaw in AI alarmism is that it treats intelligence as a property of individual minds, rather than recognizing that this capacity is distributed across our civilization and culture" (Maciej Cegłowski, quoted by Becker p112). He calls out the lone genius myth prevalent in US, too.

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Coleman Ridge @colemanridge.bsky.social · Aug 30

My calculus teacher would write out a proof on the board, look at us, and ask "Do you believe it?" When we gaped at him in uncomprehending horror, he would sit right down and maybe cry a little. He was very, very old, and Italian. He would say "You are horrible people," and prove it another way.

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Aug 21

Terry Tao on Trump/Republicans' irrational disinvestment in science: "in our current environment, when even the most benign activities are subject to capricious disruption and political interference, the luxury of disengagement is no longer a viable option." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.

The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Aug 20

Is it less absurd? When you're boldly surfing the outer limits of absurdity, can you assume well ordering?

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Aug 14

Such a fun book to work on

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Kirkus Reviews calls Étienne Ghys’s The Football: The Amazing Mathematics of the World’s Most Watched Object “a kick for fans and nonfans alike.” Read the full review:

THE FOOTBALL | Kirkus Reviews

The ball at the heart of a global game.

www.kirkusreviews.com

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Aug 11

I urge everyone outraged at this letter to demand that their congressional representatives vote for a ban on gerrymandering at the national level.

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Aug 11

Donald Trump, if you will not stand down, California will be forced to lead an effort to redraw our maps to offset the rigging of maps in red states.

If the other states call off their redistricting efforts, we will do the same. And American democracy will be better for it.

Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Aug 9

Celebrating the 2025 Euler Book Prize winner: @ismarvolic.bsky.social's Making Democracy Count. So much talk at #MAAthFest re gerrymandering, ranked choice voting & where we go from here. Thanks to @joinmaa.bsky.social. @princetonupress.bsky.social is honored to be a part of it. #ItAllStartsWithMath

Photo of Ismar Volic holding his book Making Democracy Count in the Princeton University Press book exhibit at Mathfest.

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Aug 6

Mathfest friends, @princetonupress.bsky.social is displaying stimulating books by thoughtful mathematicians, and we're running our traditional display copy giveaway. Visit us at booth 205 and save 30% online with code EXH30. #MAAthfest #ItAllStartsWithMath

Photos of five book covers: The Football by Etienne Ghys; The Language of Mathematics by Raul Rojas; The Rising Sea by Ravi Vakil, Do Plants Know Math by Stephane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Gole, and Nancy Pick; and Discrete and Computational Geometry by Satyan L. Devadoss and Joseph O’Rourke.

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Diana Gillooly @dianagillooly.bsky.social · Jul 25

I did (regular) jury duty earlier this year. My fellow Angelenos are by a large majority wonderful human beings.

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