Matthew Leingang
@matthewleingang.bsky.social
NYU Clinical Professor of Mathematics. Expat Hoosier and Canadaphile. Father of two 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ and marathoner of fourteen. He/him/his
In class today, I used the statement “with 4 minutes to go and a 10-point lead, the probability the Giants will win is 96.9%” to illustrate the three interpretations of probability. (1/5)
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In class today, I used the statement “with 4 minutes to go and a 10-point lead, the probability the Giants will win is 96.9%” to illustrate the three interpretations of probability. (1/5)
Fall returns to the midlantic region
Happy "boiler ignites, radiators creak into action for the first time in Fall" to all northeastern steam heat homeowners who celebrate
October 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Fall returns to the midlantic region
47th first day of school. About to preach the good news of the fundamental theorem of calculus to 200 students. Wish me luck!
September 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
47th first day of school. About to preach the good news of the fundamental theorem of calculus to 200 students. Wish me luck!
September is the cruelest month.
September 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
September is the cruelest month.
AI is making us dumb
August 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
AI is making us dumb
Yesterday I wondered “What is hibernation called if it happens during the summer instead of the winter?” The answer is “estivation.” I hope all my academic friends have had a good one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestiva...
Aestivation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
August 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Yesterday I wondered “What is hibernation called if it happens during the summer instead of the winter?” The answer is “estivation.” I hope all my academic friends have had a good one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestiva...
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I set up some GitHub workflows for my PreTeXt course today. I have a private repo that includes exercise solutions, a public one without them, and a workflow that copies the private one to the public one, stripping out solutions. Now I can deploy from the public repo without publishing solutions 🎉
August 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I set up some GitHub workflows for my PreTeXt course today. I have a private repo that includes exercise solutions, a public one without them, and a workflow that copies the private one to the public one, stripping out solutions. Now I can deploy from the public repo without publishing solutions 🎉
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Make a band food:
4 Naan Blondes
4 Naan Blondes
Make a band food:
Buddy Holly and the Chapulines
Buddy Holly and the Chapulines
Make a band food:
Crosby, Stills & Hash Browns
Crosby, Stills & Hash Browns
August 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Make a band food:
4 Naan Blondes
4 Naan Blondes
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New PreTeXt feature: Handouts!
If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
Handouts and Worksheets in PreTeXt
We all know that PreTeXt is great for writing textbooks. But did you know that it can also be used to create small, standalone course materials? Perhaps you want to create an in-class activity to en...
mathtech.org
August 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New PreTeXt feature: Handouts!
If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
Increase a band
Here’s one where both bands are real: U2 -> Us3
Here’s one where both bands are real: U2 -> Us3
Increase a band
11cc
11cc
August 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Increase a band
Here’s one where both bands are real: U2 -> Us3
Here’s one where both bands are real: U2 -> Us3
Injury Cab For Cutie
Slightly diminish a band: Borrow That
Anxious at the disco
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Injury Cab For Cutie
The Maimers
slightly diminish a band:
Neutral Milk Hostel
Neutral Milk Hostel
Slightly diminish a band:
10 Maniacs
10 Maniacs
August 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The Maimers
Gust
Slightly diminish a band: The Beach Toddlers
Slightly diminish a band: All American Waitlisted
August 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Gust
The treatment
Slightly diminish a band: The Only Mostly Dead Kennedys
Slightly diminish a band: The Beach Toddlers
August 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The treatment
Gnarls Oakley
Slightly diminish a band:
Less-Than-Satisfactory Brains.
Less-Than-Satisfactory Brains.
Slightly diminish a band:
Two Dog Night
Two Dog Night
August 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Gnarls Oakley
And you thought George Will was uptight. I give you: George Will’s comment section
George F. Will recently wrote about what he thinks are most misused words in the English language.
We asked readers which words they think are overused and what should replace them. Here are some of their responses:
We asked readers which words they think are overused and what should replace them. Here are some of their responses:
Opinion | The words we hate
George F. Will recently named five misapplied words. Here are our readers’ picks.
wapo.st
August 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
And you thought George Will was uptight. I give you: George Will’s comment section
Yankees still perfect since the trading deadline.
Sad press conference seated in front of a fake plant, a Keurig machine, and a (punched?) hole in the wall
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Yankees still perfect since the trading deadline.
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Putting all the dads on alert that we got an Edmund Fitzgerald book coming out this fall wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The Gales of November
<strong>On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of <em>The Great Halifax Explosion</em> tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.”...
wwnorton.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Putting all the dads on alert that we got an Edmund Fitzgerald book coming out this fall wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Sad press conference seated in front of a fake plant, a Keurig machine, and a (punched?) hole in the wall
August 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sad press conference seated in front of a fake plant, a Keurig machine, and a (punched?) hole in the wall
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The Sunday of months 🥲
August 1, 2024 at 1:49 PM
The Sunday of months 🥲
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Take away all the GOAT candidates: The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Lost.
What’s the best show outside of that group?
What’s the best show outside of that group?
August 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Homicide: Life on the Streets
Google thinks I should know the alcohol content of blondes in Asbury Park.
![Screen grab from a Google results page on Asbury Park, NJ.
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Asbury Park is a small seaside city on the New Jersey coast. It's known for its sandy shore and beachfront boardwalk lined with shops, arcades and cafes. The city's live music venues include the Stone Pony, which has hosted native New Jerseyans Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, and the 1920s Paramount Theatre. The Silverball Museum's video games, arcade games and pinball machines date from the 1930s to the present.
- Google
Population: 15,391 (2023)
Area: 1.603 mi2
Clubs and Teams: Asbury Park Sea Urchins, Jersey Shore Bullets, Asbury Park Boardwalkers, New Jersey ShoreCats
University: Concorde School of Hair Design-Ocean Township
Blonde alcohol content: 4.9% [highlighted by OP] bottleshop.com
Area codes: 732
Elevation: 16 ft (5 m)
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July 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Google thinks I should know the alcohol content of blondes in Asbury Park.
33 if you count the trip from LAX to Santa Barbara in a rental car as “visiting LA”
July 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
33 if you count the trip from LAX to Santa Barbara in a rental car as “visiting LA”