Project MEGSSS

A perfect read for your math talented student! This is available for free as an audiobook on Libby via our local library districts. Encourage your tween or teen to check it out!

on sale!

Not an ad. Not sponsored. Just sharing the love of math!

“Various Retailers have Change Is the Only Constant: The Wisdom of Calculus in a Madcap World by Ben Orlin (eBook) on sale for $1.99 listed below.

Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for sharing this deal.

Note, must purchase from the available retailers listed

Available From:
• Hachette Book Group via Amazon (Kindle eBook)
• Apple Books
• Barnes & Noble (Nook eBook)
• Kobo
• Bookshop
• eBooks.com

Book Details:
• From popular math blogger and author of the underground bestseller Math With Bad Drawings, Change Is The Only Constant is an engaging and eloquent exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and wonderfully bad drawings.

• Change is the Only Constant is an engaging and eloquent exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and memorably bad drawings. By spinning 28 engaging mathematical tales, Orlin shows us that calculus is simply another language to express the very things we humans grapple with every day -- love, risk, time, and most importantly, change. Divided into two parts, "Moments" and "Eternities," and drawing on everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Mark Twain to David Foster Wallace, Change is the Only Constant unearths connections between calculus, art, literature, and a beloved dog named Elvis. This is not just math for math's sake; it's math for the sake of becoming a wiser and more thoughtful human.”

Yesterday, I was chatting w/ multiple parents who felt higher math was useless and didn’t want their kids wasting time on it. Have you noticed this mentality lately??

From one of our students today:

“As I prepare to move into my dorm this weekend, I wanted to again thank Project MEGSSS for all they’ve done. The math and soft skills I practiced are an integral part of why I’m at this college and able to start on this particular aerospace/aeronautics pathway. I’ll never forget how much the teachers invested in me and encouraged me to grow. I wish every student had that chance. Imagine how different the world would be!”

-Maria, Elements Graduate

What do you call friends who love math? Alge-bros.

It’s !

Two great facts:

1. It’s not a math test!
2. It’s free!

An Anthropic mathematician logged onto X last week and posted something that stopped the math world cold. Seven casual words: "Hello there the Jacobian conjecture is false thanx."

The Jacobian conjecture is a problem that has resisted mathematicians since 1884. Fields Medalists have tried. Famed 20th-century mathematicians published claimed proofs that later fell apart. It made Stephen Smale's list of the most important unsolved problems for the 21st century.

The counterexample Levent Alpöge posted was short enough to fit in a single social media post. Other mathematicians verified it within hours.

What makes this result different from other recent AI-assisted breakthroughs is not the complexity of the answer. The counterexample itself is remarkably simple. The difficulty was in finding it, navigating an enormous search space of possible mathematical objects to locate one with exactly the right properties.

That distinction matters more than it might seem. And what it suggests about where AI's mathematical capabilities are actually headed is the part the field is now debating.

Read the full story, link in comments.

Hey, Math Loving Students!

If you participate in a trig competition, there’s a scholarship opportunity for you!

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