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Some Math Explanations
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Some people seem to appreciate some of my explanations about math and so this post will have links to some of them. This is not comprehensive, and there are some that I've done and liked but can't find. I may redo them on my profile page and update the list. They're roughly organized.

Answers to Simple/Fun Questions

Classical problems and Common Explanations

On Numbers and Base Representations

Prime Numbers

Infinity, Division by Zero, and the Projective Line

Euler's Formula: I don't really like explanations of Euler's formula whose existences are predicated on Euler's formula existing a priori. Rather, I like ones where Euler's formula is the answer to a question one might naturally ask, showing how one might discover it rather than have it handed down by the math gods and justified through contrived explanations or magical/unintuitive Taylor series.

Pi

Number Theory and Diophantine Equations

Linear Algebra

Calculus

Probability

Fourier Transforms

Hot-takes on -1/12. Don't @ me.

Perspectives on Math

Miscellaneous

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