Nathan McNew
@agreatnate.bsky.social
Associate professor of mathematics, Towson University, DEN -> LEB -> BWI
Number theory, combinatorics, coffee
Number theory, combinatorics, coffee
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Nathan McNew, Jai Setty
On the densities of covering numbers and abundant numbers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23041
On the densities of covering numbers and abundant numbers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23041
August 1, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Nathan McNew, Jai Setty
On the densities of covering numbers and abundant numbers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23041
On the densities of covering numbers and abundant numbers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23041
The Mid-Atlantic Seminar On Numbers is happening later this month! More info here: tigerweb.towson.edu/nmcnew/mason7/
March 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The Mid-Atlantic Seminar On Numbers is happening later this month! More info here: tigerweb.towson.edu/nmcnew/mason7/
High-school-aged me would be very disappointed to learn that math-professor-aged me, despite 15 years of working as a professional mathematician, has never once meaningfully used the cubic formula to solve a math problem.
February 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
High-school-aged me would be very disappointed to learn that math-professor-aged me, despite 15 years of working as a professional mathematician, has never once meaningfully used the cubic formula to solve a math problem.
Story Circles, developed by grassroots theater in the '60s, evolved in the restorative justice community as a tool to build community. In the #JMM2025 TPSE session tomorrow I'll describe how Towson University's math department has used them to foster connections and dialogue among our math majors.
January 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Story Circles, developed by grassroots theater in the '60s, evolved in the restorative justice community as a tool to build community. In the #JMM2025 TPSE session tomorrow I'll describe how Towson University's math department has used them to foster connections and dialogue among our math majors.
Number Theorists: The seventh iteration of MASON, the Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Numbers will take place March 29-30 at the Brin Research Center at UMD. tigerweb.towson.edu/nmcnew/mason7/ 🧮
MASON VII
tigerweb.towson.edu
January 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Number Theorists: The seventh iteration of MASON, the Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Numbers will take place March 29-30 at the Brin Research Center at UMD. tigerweb.towson.edu/nmcnew/mason7/ 🧮
A surprising symmetry: The score of the losing team in every NFL game played since 1920 lies in the closed interval [0,51] (the Chiefs lost 54-51 in 2018). Only two numbers in that range have never been the score of a losing team: 50 (one less than the max) and 1 (one greater than the min).
December 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
A surprising symmetry: The score of the losing team in every NFL game played since 1920 lies in the closed interval [0,51] (the Chiefs lost 54-51 in 2018). Only two numbers in that range have never been the score of a losing team: 50 (one less than the max) and 1 (one greater than the min).
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I don’t know what to think about today’s news, but I know that smart kids need better role models than Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
December 10, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I don’t know what to think about today’s news, but I know that smart kids need better role models than Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.
Reposted by Nathan McNew
“All of us who have written code in the past 60 years can thank Thomas Kurtz. In the 1960s, when computers were massive, expensive and only available to scientists, he believed everyone should have access.” Bill Gates remembers professor Thomas Kurtz, via @financialtimes.com. ⤵️
Thomas Kurtz, mathematician, 1928-2024
His invention of the Basic programming language paved the way for the personal computer revolution
on.ft.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:23 PM
“All of us who have written code in the past 60 years can thank Thomas Kurtz. In the 1960s, when computers were massive, expensive and only available to scientists, he believed everyone should have access.” Bill Gates remembers professor Thomas Kurtz, via @financialtimes.com. ⤵️
A fun REU outcome: After proving a nice theorem generalizing a result from integers to polynomials, on the verge of submitting to a journal, we found a stronger bound came out a year prior. Nevertheless, we extended that result to get a fun theorem that's nearly optimal as the power k-> infinity!
Angel Kumchev, Nathan McNew, Ariana Park
Short Interval Results For Powerfree Polynomials Over Finite Fields. (arXiv:2310.02495v1 [math.NT])
http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02495
Short Interval Results For Powerfree Polynomials Over Finite Fields. (arXiv:2310.02495v1 [math.NT])
http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02495
December 1, 2024 at 9:06 PM
A fun REU outcome: After proving a nice theorem generalizing a result from integers to polynomials, on the verge of submitting to a journal, we found a stronger bound came out a year prior. Nevertheless, we extended that result to get a fun theorem that's nearly optimal as the power k-> infinity!