Mike Lawler
@mikeandallie
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former math professor, current math and ultimate frisbee enthusiast. Love making fun math videos with my kids.
Joined August 2009
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Prestwick. My dad is from Scotland and we lived there in the summer of 1987. We played every course. The two rounds I remember the most are the one at Prestwick for how great the course was, and the one at Troon from how incredibly awful the weather was.
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RT @VincentKeymer04: Entering the World Top 10 for the very first time, truly a special and memorable moment for me. Thank you to all the m….
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2/2 It was my sophomore year of high school. The problem was way over my head, and I honestly couldn't believe it could be solved. But struggling with it and figuring it out with Mr. Waterman in the days after the test is really a defining memory for me.
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1/2 It is my birthday today and I was doing a lot of reflecting. My high school math teacher was a huge influence on me. Unfortunately he died from ALS in 2012. Because of him I wanted to study math, and it is this specific problem from the 1987 AIME that drew me in to math.
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If any math teachers are interested in covering basic ideas about gerrymandering with their students, here's a project I did with my kids back in 2018. It uses the materials that Moon Duchin put together for k-12 studetns.
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Moon Duchin gave a talk about math and gerrymandering in San Diego yesterday that generated an enormous amount of excitement. One lucky bit of that excitement for me was that Francesca Bernardi sha…
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The only thing I want from. The entire world 🌎 s a When Genius Failed jeopardy game. Me vs Benn
Everyone talking about who's replacing Powell and no one talking who's running the Central Bank of Volatility. Where are the good conspiracies.
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I was in college when the COBE microwave background results came out and it was one of the most exciting moments in science that I ever saw in person. My undergrad physics thesis was related to those results. Fun to see the research continuing 30+ years later.
I’ve spent years searching for evidence that the universe might have a preferred direction—something that would shake the foundations of cosmology. Our new paper just dropped in Physical Review D. It’s about a strange twist in the cosmic microwave background: anisotropic
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We bought a lake house last year and it has two peach trees. We got a nice little harvest this year!
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Our younger son is hiking the appalachain trail this summer and is through Mount Washington. When he started in May, this part was the one thing that made me a little nervous.
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I love @agadmator 's game summaries both for learning and for entertainment . "It doesn't matter how you defend, you either get checkmated, or you get checkmated even faster." lol.
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A fun little piece of MIT history. I was part of one of the hacking clubs and I always try to go visit the semi secret place where the posters and hacking rules are whenever I'm on campus.
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Saw this problem in my FB memories today. I don't know where I got it from, but it is a fun one, and definitely a fun one to share with kids.
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2/2 A more interesting case is something like \sqrt[2]. \sqrt[2] = .1 + (\sqrt[2] - 1) = .1 + 1 / 1 / (\sqrt[2] - 1) = .1 + 1 / (\sqrt[2] + 1) = .1 + 1 / 2 + (\sqrt[2] - 1) = . 1 + 1 / (2 + (1 / (2 + (1 / (2 + . ).
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1/2 My high school math teacher called the systematic procedure for continued fractions "split, flip, and rat". For 3.14 it would go like this:. 3.14 = .3 + 0.14 = .3 + 7 / 50 = .3 + 1 / (50 / 7) = .3 + 1 / (7 + 1 /7).
@robolsmath I did (1) by reducing it to:. (157 - 50 a)(1 + bc) == 50 c,. guess a = 3. so: 7 (1 + b c) == 50 c. guess: c = 7, since 50 didn't have any factor of 7. That leaves:. 1 + 7 b == 50,. or:. b = 7. For: . a + b + c == 17. How can this be done systematically without guessing?.
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Walking through MiT today and saw this painting donated by Arthur Mattuck. He was one of teaching mentors many years ago.
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I got up at 4:00 am yesterday to watch, and seeing this round live was incredible!.
Ella Hansen SMASHED the course record yesterday to shoot the second highest-rated round at a PDGA Major (1057) and secured a podium finish at the 2025 PDGA Pro World Championships 🔥
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RT @StatisticUrban: The US just won the International Physics Olympiad!. They beat out China to claim the top spot.
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Neat position from the Magnus vs Alireza game today highlighted by @agadmator - white to play and get a big advantage.
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