#mondaymath

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some really cool math leggings

Hi ladies,

Ya’ll are amazing. Obsessed with your site :) 

I saw these awesome math leggings. Just sharing :) http://www.modcloth.com/shop/leggings/fresh-take-leggings-in-mathematics

Thanks!

We reblogged these leggings last year, and we’ve posted a bunch more math since then!

--Emily

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One last mathy post today because MATH IS COOL...and also makes for some very cool jewelry. 

Thanks to Evelyn Lamb (above, who I met in person at the West Coast Science Communication Retreat, aka #SciCommCamp) for introducing me to the beautiful works of Cubos Y Raices (translation: Cubes and Roots).  

Evelyn is wearing the Apolonio design, after Apollonius of Perga - each design is named after a famous mathematician. Math is Evelyn’s specialty. She’s currently a post-doc at the University of Utah and writes for Scientific American at Roots of Unity.    

- Summer

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What better day to highlight Emily Lakdawalla’s Fibonacci dress by @shenovafashion than on Fibonacci Day!* 

This is just one of the many fabulous designs by @shenovafashion (aka Holly). We’ve posted her work before and our own Emily has even modeled the Jupiter/brown dwarf design herself! 

- Summer

*I’m guessing it’s because today is 11/23 (in the US date format) which is the first four numbers of the Fibonacci sequence. Save the date on 11/23/58 for a Fibonacci math-gasm. ;) 

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Just over a week ago, I met the coolest high schooler ever. Her name is Stella and not only does she know how to express her love of science (as you can see above), she designed a brilliant math mug for Cognitive Surplus. 

Stella attended the Los Angeles Math Circle at UCLA where she first learned about factorials. After wondering about zero factorial (0!), she figured out that it equaled one and thereby reasoned that “making no choice is a choice in itself!” She made a version of this mug for her dad for Father’s Day before collaborating with Cognitive Surplus to make the one shown here. You can read her story behind the design in her own words on their website.

I met Stella at the writing workshop as part of West Coast Science Communication Retreat (aka #SciCommCamp). The world is totally a better place with curious minds like hers in it - as clearly evidenced by her taste in tardigrades. ;)

- Summer