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Gifted child (9yo), math advice needed.

Edit: First and foremost, my child is an avid reader and she reads a ton at home. We hardly do any math at home,...

A surprisingly simple algorithm that generates the Twin Primes

This algorithm enumerates the twin-primes without performing explicit primality tests. A twin-prime witness is an integer w such that both 6w1 and 6w+1 are both prime. A...

Video: A continuous analog of the Erds distinct-distances problem producing weird looking dynamics

I built an interactive browser lab that places points on a manifold (torus, sphere, cube, arbitrary STL mesh) and optimizes them by maximizing the Shannon...

Why are math teachers so badly paid?

This blows my mind every time I think about it. For context, I'm a software engineer who gravitated towards the field only thanks to my...