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Diana Gillooly
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Mathematical sciences editor @princetonupress.bsky.social; was
@cambridgeup.bsky.social. UCLA/Westwood, Los Angeles well-wisher
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Photograph of Arthur Ashe seated at a table behind a placard reading "WITNESS" at a hearing of the United Nations General Assembly's Special Committee on Apartheid. He is facing forward thoughtfully, not speaking.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Two books I've been waiting for!
Photo shows two books: Reading Together by Katarzyna Bartoszynska, published by Ode Books, and Robin Hood Math by Noah Giansiracusa. A receipt from Book Soup, a bookstore in West Hollywood, protrudes from the Bartoszynska book.
October 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Rising Sea around the world, part 3: here in Los Angeles -- with a normal-sized cat for scale.
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The Rising Sea around the world, part 2: here on display -- with other excellent titles -- at the @mathmoves.bsky.social library.
October 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The Rising Sea around the world: here on display at the Clay Math(s) Institute annual meeting in Oxford UK (official publication date is 21 October).
October 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Found around the house
A handwritten document labeled Takeaways, with a list of three items. Strategic: MMP will not work in a straightforward way in characteristic p. [The word straightforward is underlined.] Personal: Be satisfied resolving to toric singularities. Activist: If you want to stir up trouble, look for E_8.
September 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Celebrating the 2025 Euler Book Prize winner: @ismarvolic.bsky.social's Making Democracy Count. So much talk at #MAAthFest re gerrymandering, ranked choice voting & where we go from here. Thanks to @joinmaa.bsky.social. @princetonupress.bsky.social is honored to be a part of it. #ItAllStartsWithMath
Photo of Ismar Volic holding his book Making Democracy Count in the Princeton University Press book exhibit at Mathfest.
August 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Mathfest friends, @princetonupress.bsky.social is displaying stimulating books by thoughtful mathematicians, and we're running our traditional display copy giveaway. Visit us at booth 205 and save 30% online with code EXH30. #MAAthfest #ItAllStartsWithMath
Photos of five book covers: The Football by Etienne Ghys; The Language of Mathematics by Raul Rojas; The Rising Sea by Ravi Vakil, Do Plants Know Math by Stephane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Gole, and Nancy Pick; and Discrete and Computational Geometry by Satyan L. Devadoss and Joseph O’Rourke.
August 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Excerpt from Edmund Crispin's Holy Disorders. The Regius Professor laboured for five minutes. Then he gave them the complete list of possible combinations. Geoffrey looked at it and said: "You've forgotten 5687." "Impossible," said the Professor. "I worked it out by the factorial four." "Well, you've still forgotten 5687." The Professor gazed at the list intently. "That's funny," he admitted. "Oh, come on," said Fen impatiently. "I'll do it. You see, you put each number first, in turn...." "Try the ones you've got," said Geoffrey.
July 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Gumby on the moon with a sheepish expression on his face, a still from the first episode of Gumby, a children's television show.
June 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Editorializing in the copy of Reyner Banham's Los Angeles that I borrowed from the UCLA library.
May 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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From the late, great Village Voice sports section:
Photo of newspaper clipping titled “Proverbial Mets” Thou, Metropolitan! Thou shalt reach up, but thou shalt not catch. Thou shalt throw to first, mistaking it for third. Where there shall be an bullpen, there shalt thou find nada. An ninth-inning rally, capp-ed by an three-run homer, belongeth solely to thy opponents. An Met hurler shall throw strikes through two. Thence cometh trouble. An Met pitcher shall not blow one by an batter, yet shall he blow! An Met rally shall consist of but one hit. Even an spanking new stadium shall not suffice. Truly an Dynamet this an good bit better than an actual Met! By Hugo Flesch
April 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Photo of proud orange tabby cat hugging the book Lectures on Kahler Groups by Pierre Py, number 52 in the Princeton Mathematical Series; the book's cover is also orange patterned.
March 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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At my parents' for the semiannual Culling of the Hoarded Boxes. Sincere shoutout to Delta Faucets and Easy Spirit shoes for beautifully designed boxes -- no tape, no glue, and the Delta box has a nearly rectangular footprint!
Photo of an unfolded Delta Faucets box Photo of an unfolded Easy Spirit shoes box
December 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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The long-awaited middlebrow turn in math -- foretold by Cassels & Flynn in the 1990s.
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The cover of the book titled Prolegomena to a Middlebrow Arithmetic of Curves of Genus 2 by J.W.S. Cassels and E.V. Flynn, number 230 in the London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes series published by Cambridge University Press.
December 16, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Text reading: This honestly was less bad than the average Bret Stephens column. The reason being that it is much *shorter*.
December 12, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Orange cat wearing a helmet labeled Meat is driving a tank labeled Meat past a meat shop and a crowd of cheering children. One butcher says to the other, Children love the meat tank.
November 26, 2024 at 2:05 AM