Vince Matsko

Mathematician, educator, consultant, artist, puzzle designer, programmer, blogger, etc., etc.

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11yo is exploring shape rotation.

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@snezanalawrence The definition of a topology.

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@Anthony_Bonato 98% correct. But I really would need a space before the (mod 2) to give your suggestion 100%.

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The answer to yesterday's puzzle is TRAGIC.

SEMISWEET is the only common word with the letters ISW occurring consecutively. Can you find a common word where the letters AKO appear consecutively? Answer tomorrow!

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The answer to yesterday's puzzle is "HORSE." What six-letter word can you find below, taking one letter from each square, in order?

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If you like the attached puzzle from Volume 3 of The Puzzle Cabaret -- to appear this Fall -- (https://t.co/z9KyVCqi31), check out @LowdownCryptic -- after you buy a book, of course.

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Written yesterday after David Cohen's wonderful VCoM talk (https://t.co/dKAwFkzd05) "Scrabblegram: I prioritize vowels (a, e, i, o, u). Juxtapose Q and U -- cheating! Noo! Forty-three E's! No f--king way! Email David end result." @dc_scrabblegram

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Choose one letter from each pentagon so that a common five-letter word is spelled out. Answer tomorrow. For more intriguing word puzzles, get The Puzzle Cabaret at Amazon! https://t.co/WpUAduHf0W

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Choose one letter from each pentagon so that a common five-letter word is spelled out. Answer tomorrow. For more intriguing word puzzles, get The Puzzle Cabaret at Amazon! https://t.co/WpUAduHf0W

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My puzzle book, The Puzzle Cabaret, is featured in today's puzzle page in the Guardian. Enjoy! https://t.co/1xX0RX4OxB

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Volume 2 of The Puzzle Cabaret is now available at https://t.co/GvqGtM6zGW! What a great way to use up those amazon gift cards.... https://t.co/QdPVeaD7F1

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Here's another one....

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Exploring Koch-like curves using p-adic evaluations again! I forgot how subtle these images can appear despite the simple algorithm used to create them.

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Some of these dual polyhedra are striking in their simplicity. This is the great disdyakis dodecahedron, dual of the great truncated cuboctahedron.

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Another grayscale graphic for the polyhedra book. There are 75 uniform polyhedra to create plus their duals. One polyhedron at a time....

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@DenisPhillipsWx Stick to the weather.

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See the mathematical art display from Ellen Eischen's Math and the Creative Process course at the University of Oregon! https://t.co/FESx1s5A4k

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New post about creating polyhedra graphics on https://t.co/m1NqqjFM8A! This begins a thread for all polyhedra enthusiasts who want to learn how to generate 3D polyhedra graphics on their own.

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Yellow circles represent overlaps of three rotated square lattices based on the relationships 2^2 + 29^2 = 13^2 + 26^2 = 19^2 + 22^2.

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@fermatslibrary @snezanalawrence Interesting! I had Richard Duffin as a professor at Carnegie Mellon in the early 80's.