Ben Orlin
@benorlin
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Lover of math, bad at drawing. he/him. Author of four books, including MATH FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (which is for all majors, and even for ambitious minors)
Saint Paul, MN
Joined March 2010
RT @thenatewolf: Cop: are you Nate?. Me: aye, truth seeker, you find yourself before the bearer of that name. Cop: uh, yeah, we’ve been….
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Math for English Majors is $1.99 on Kindle today!. You could buy three copies and still pay less than the median price of a drink at Starbucks!. For more quantitative insights like this, buy three copies of Math for English Majors!.
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A roundup of my favorite math puzzles from 2024. (in which I self-defeatingly recommend books that are not my own).
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Probability puzzle; see if you can answer without doing the full calculation (poll in next tweet)
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RT @timchartier: My math journal with mathy lined pages is out TODAY! Check out the "Nonstandard Notebook: Mathematically Ruled Pages for….
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RT @bizbookpr: How the fun side of #math can make you smarter at #personalfinance and #wealth. @SBenjaminscast interviews math teacher @b….
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RT @Mr_Alvarez12: Classroom bookshelf and books on my desk. Not pictured: @Mathgarden because his books are on my kindle .
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RT @bizbookpr: A handy gide to the universal language for the mathematically perplexed. @arstechnica feature on the new book #MathForEnglis….
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RT @vishweshji: Just got my copy of "Math for English Majors" by @benorlin . It's going to be a fun weekend!
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RT @timchartier: If this was a t-shirt, it would say "Life is Good". Thanks @benorlin for another great book!
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RT @TheErickLee: First meeting of the Citadel High Math Club at lunch today. Learned how to play Prophecies from Math Games with Bad Drawin….
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The snarky advice is "don't do it, you have so much to live for" but my actual advice is here.
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RT @InfiniteL88ps: Loving math while being stuck in a rigid schooling system is tough. As @benorlin explains: "Huge bureaucracies are not k….
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RT @InfiniteL88ps: 88 years ago, a leading national magazine committed a major statistical blunder that ultimately caused it to go bankrupt….
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