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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · Nov 23

I used to post long #VisualAlgebra threads on #MathTwitter before realizing that I was actually in #TheBadPlace. I'm going to make my debut #MathSky thread today, with visuals that I've never publicly shared. (Can you guess the topic?) I'm excited to show you, and I hope you enjoy!

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a woman is sitting on a couch in front of a wall that says `` welcome ! everything is fine . ''

Alt: "Everything is Fine" opening scene from NBC's "The Good Place", with Kristen Bell.

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 2h

Brian Woo should be well-rested too…

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 2h

Brian Woo should be fresh… 🤞

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 3h

I had completely forgotten how hard it is to be a fan of a playoff baseball team. 😬😬😬

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 3h

So did everyone take a break and sit down for that?

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

And with the extra exclamation mark too, out of spite!! 🤣

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like to know how they plan to hold them accountable when they’re all just going to get blanket pardons on their way out. Otherwise it’s just a statement that his intern got from ChatGPT.

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

How else would one concisely express the number of set partitions of [2n] into n blocks of size 2?

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Mathematical Finance event in Wellington called the New Zealand All Black-Scholes

Math Misery @mathmisery.bsky.social · 1d

Combinatorics event in Flushing called the New York Stem

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Numerical Linear Algebra event in Florida called the Tampa Bay Rayleigh quotients

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

I considered using the San Francisco Unicorn Subgroups, but passed because I suspect not many others on here follow cricket, and only you would get the math reference.

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

The most ridiculous is definitely the one on the left.

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Numerical Linear Algebra event in Florida called the Tampa Bay Rayleigh quotients

Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 1d

Probability Theory event in Nevada called the Las Vegas Sample Spaces

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Back-to-back topology events in the Twin Cities called the Minnesota Hopf Lynx and the Minnesota Wild Knots

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Group theory event in India called the Lucknow Supersolvable Giants

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 1d

Newtonian mechanics event in California called the San Francisco Giant Shoulders to Stand On

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Taylor series event in Spain called Real Analytic Madrid.

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Taylor series event in Spain called Real Analytic Madrid.

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 1d

Computational algebra event in Ontario called the Toronto Maple

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Back-to-back topology events in the Twin Cities called the Minnesota Hopf Lynx and the Minnesota Wild Knots

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Back-to-back topology events in the Twin Cities called the Minnesota Hopf Lynx and the Minnesota Wild Knots

Vlad the Inhaler by znmeb 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇵🇦 @algocompsynth.bsky.social · 1d

Differential equation solvers event in Alberta called the Edmonton Euler Method

Math Misery @mathmisery.bsky.social · 1d

Simulation event in Ohio called The Cleveland Brownian Motion

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

My poor hometown team. Too soon. 😭

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Algebraic number theory event in Southern California called The Los Angeles Ramified Primes

Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 1d

Higher-dimensional quadric surfaces event in Washington state called The Seattle Superconics

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Lotka-Volterra event in Tennessee called The Nashville Predator–Prey Models

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Lotka-Volterra event in Tennessee called The Nashville Predator–Prey Models

Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 1d

Set theory event in Missouri called The St. Louis Inaccessible Cardinals

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Number theory event in Minneapolis called the Minnesota Twin Prime Conjecture

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

Number theory event in Minneapolis called the Minnesota Twin Prime Conjecture

Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 1d

PDE event in Florida called The Miami Heat Equation

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

An Alexandrov geometry event in New York called The Brooklyn Polyhedral Nets

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 1d

An Alexandrov geometry event in New York called The Brooklyn Polyhedral Nets

Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 1d

An Apollonian geometry event in Wisconsin called The Green Bay Circle Packers

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 2d

Geoduck

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 3d

I heard it from one of our recent university provost candidates in his interview. He was quoting someone, but I didn’t remember who.

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 3d

I heard someone recently say: “AI won’t take your job. Someone proficient with AI will take your job.” I think that might be the most accurate prediction.

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 5d

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 6d

JULIO YOU BEAUTIFUL MAN

Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 5d

Clemson has been designated a National Monarch Butterfly City, and there is a public art installation of 20 fiberglass butterflies all around town.

Look closely, one of them appears to have some hidden mathematics on its underside! #IllustratingMath #Mathober

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC.

From the QR code:

“…textile art to represent both our home in the Blue Ridge foothills and the end point of the monarch's sojourn in Central Mexico. The left wing is inspired by the Tenango,
the traditional embroidery work of the Otomi people. The right wing shows a Cherokee seven point star quilt pattern, representing southern Appalachia's rich quilting history, as well as the indigenous influences upon the art form. In both cultures, such large and detailed textiles often involve family or community members working on a single piece together, making them symbols of
cooperation and unity.”

Public art installation from the Butterfly Project in Clemson, SC, with the butterfly lemma hidden on its underside!

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 8d

I read and re-read this sentence and was very confused, until i realized that it wasn’t about Marjorie Taylor Greene…