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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The end of critical thinking??? One of Maths’ ‘Millennium Problems’ may have been cracked by OpenAI. The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem involves a series of equations often used to predict weather among other possible practical apps. Gift NYT article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...

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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ (Gift Article)

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

#AcademicFreedom erosion “is part of broader democratic backslide that we’re seeing in US” says Jennifer Jones at UCS. I’ve witnessed this demise at my own college especially since the pandemic. Faculty are decreasingly supported as content creation experts. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi...

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Academic freedom slides globally, as it takes a nosedive in the US

The last decade has seen institutional autonomy curbed in 50 countries

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Attn Algebra students: Studying radical functions this term? Roots of numbers? Roots of functions? Check-out the root of the word radical ;)

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Fun hands-on maths project to try at home in celebration of the beginning of spring term. Even if you've played with #MobiusStrip before, you can always find a new "What if?" Q to explore.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Also pre-order books from your favourite authors! Bookstores use total number of pre-orders as a metric for how many copies to order. The more pre-orders, the higher expectation for a run on purchases early after release, so will stock extra copies and promote prominently.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Happy #Fibonacci Day! Nov 23rd (11.23) begins the Fibonacci Sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, ... which is used in computing, stock trading, and architecture and design. Nature is full of Fibonacci patterns, from DNA to hurricanes, much more! www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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The Fibonacci Sequence Is Everywhere—Even the Troubled Stock Market

The curious set of numbers shows up in nature and also in human activities.

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Topology and geometry can solve many of life’s woes. Here Dr. Roland Fryer, Professor of economics at Harvard University and NY Times Contributor, shares simple transparent process that uses #geometry to solve our #gerrymandering problem. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

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Opinion | Geometry Solves Gerrymandering

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This video on #scale from @3Blue1Brown www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ba... reminds me of the famous Eames video from 1977 called Powers of Ten www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKB.... I even have a flipbook of the Eames vid ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/Utkj3...

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Powers of Ten flipbook

YouTube video by Prof. Sally Keely

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We’re celebrating Pi Day with Dr. @stevenstrogatz.com, who joins us to discuss how the ratio was "discovered" and its role in recent science.

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Pi, Anyone? A Celebration Of Math And What’s New

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Happy #PiDay! Pretty cool to have a blood moon total lunar eclipse overnight as we entered Pi Day 2025. Plenty of circles and spheres to celebrate on this last day of winter quarter classes. Cheers!

A blood moon appears over the Space Needle in Seattle WA on Thursday night. Courtesy Nick Wagner, Seattle Times.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Having fun playing with my new wooden soma cube. Don't know why I didn't know this before, but it can be rearranged from 3x3x3 to 4x4x2 minus 5 contiguous unit cubes that form the shape of a pentomino (1 deep). 11 of the pentominos work (of the 12). Way cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGSH...

Soma cube made of seven 3D pieces, with hardwood case.

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Hey new fall term students! Please read my "Why should college students study mathematics? Here are eight reasons. At least one will strike true for you." www.integreat.education/OL/docs/WhyS...

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InteGreat Education | Prof. Sally Keely @integreat.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

15 +/- yrs at the bird site, past year at mastodon (@InteGreat@mathstodon.xyz). Checking BlueSky out! Bit concerned just another billionaire-run corporate SM, we'll see. To stay must support ALT descriptions, ability to edit posts, have interesting #mathematics content, and plenty of kind people.

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