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Of Loops, Braids, and String Figures: The Loopy Calculus of Cat's Cradle

Week Notes 58

Dividing Derivatives of Multivariate Functions: Cannot Divide

Dividing Derivatives of Multivariate Functions: Can Divide

How to Build Spot It

Build Spot-In (Part 5)

Build Spot-In (Part 4)

Build Spot-In (Part 3)

Build Spot-In (Part 2)

Build Spot-It / Dobble (Part 1)

Digital Magic: An Introduction to Base Systems

Missing Symbols PDF

Tricky ProSet Layout Part 2

Tricky ProSet Layout Part 1

Week Notes 57

$\LaTeX{}$ Lecture Notes Template

Morel Mushroom (Morchella americana)

Why Do You Suck at Juggling?

Week Notes 56

First Bloom: Kohleria

Week Notes 55

Just Hypertexting

Home Ownership Nightmare

Lakeshore AVS Spring Sale 2026

Mira Doodles

Week Notes 54

Magical Isomorphisms

Other People's Music

Gamma Correction

Week Notes 53

Then 2026-04-08

Navaho String Games

The Poincare Lemma Intuition

Closed and Exact Forms

Rubik's Cubes and Groups (Part 2)

Rubik's Cubes and Groups

Esperanto Parolata (L'Espérantiste, Novembero 1900)

Loving the Community Center

Pigeonhole Principle and the Dimension Bound Theorem

B42: Two Uses of Symmetry

B42 W2025 Exam Q3: Right Way

B42 W2025 Exam Q3: Wrong Way

Multilinearity of Wedge versus Forms

Week Notes 52: One Year! Woo!

Week Notes 52: One Year! Woo!

Linear Combinations via Pigeonhole Principle

FAQ: TA Hiring

Pull-Backs of 1-Forms

Flow Lines of F(x,y)=(x,y)

Week Notes 51

W2025 B42 Q6

W2025 B42 Q3a: The Arclength Formula

Calculating a Product of Cycles

Stuff to Google about Symmetry and Permutations

Multiple Choice Questions Strategies: Answer Recognition and Calculation

Term Test 2 Q4: Parametrizing A Complicated Circle

Seeds Seeds Seeds!

Garden Summer 2026

Week Notes 50

Calculating Permutations

Seedy Saturday 2026

Proteins: Introns and Exons

Week Notes 49

The Ends of A Stick: Boundary Points

Flow Through Parallelograms

Week Notes 48

Avoiding non-nice points.

Finding the inverse of 5 mod 14

Japanese Joinery

Week Notes 46

Week Notes 47

Friendship Fantasies

Chill Posts

A02 MCQ: Which Diophantine Equation Has a Solution? (Solution)

A02 MCQ: Which Diophantine Equation Has a Solution?

Growing Linearly Independent Sets

Fitch-Cheney Offset Values Explained

D92: Koura Commutivity

Schnapsen

Arranging letters of CAT and DAD

Ness's Generalized Cool S

Week Notes 44

Week Notes 45

Cycloid Parametrization

Fejer Kernel has the control property

Loop Braid Groups

The Paper Meme: The Fundamental Relations

Repotting 2026/01/25

Hack: Make PDFs Amber-on-Black

Paper Outline: The Calculus of Loop Manipulations

Ness's Sun-Based Heart Sequence

Week Notes 43

The Sun Heart-Sequence Calculation

Binary Counting: to Decimal

Binary Counting

Solution of Wave Equation with Particular Initial Confitions

Pulling Apart Figures

Week Notes 42

Week Notes 42

Week Notes 42

Two Favourite Calculus Problems

Word Problems and Groups

Pointwise vs Uniform Convergence

Week Notes 41

A02 MCQ: Uniqueness

A02 MCQ: Possible definitions of the naturals

FAQ: Memorization

Multiple Choice Related to Sum of 1+2+3+...+n

Sum of 1+2+3+...+n

Fourier Polynomials

Anki

Week Notes 40

The Folk Process and Yahtzee

Week Notes 39

Mira and Math

Parker's Virtual Business Card

Riemann Sums / Area: Winter 2025: Part 3

Riemann Sums / Area: Winter 2025: Part 2

Riemann Sums / Area: Winter 2025: Part 1

Week Notes 38

Supporting A Departmental Culture of Undergraduate Research

Riemann Sum: 1 + 2x

OpenStax V2 S3.1 Q28

Nick's 1xn Puzzle: Flow Chart for State

Filling Radius and Induced Map on Homology

Volume under Exponential Parabola Train Track

Nick's Coin Flipping Puzzle 1x3

Curve sketch for trigonometry.

Curve sketch for polynomial.

Change of Variables and Area

Example of Substitution

Summary of Anti-Derivatives

Week Notes 37

Brokhos: Heart Sequence Analysis

The Doubling Digits Magic Trick

Week Notes 36

Alexander's Theorem

Braiding Doodles

The Weird Sum of Absolte Values Example

Week Notes 35

Talk: Braiding on Computers

Constrained Optimization and Parametrization: Paths c1 and c2

Constrained Optimization and Parametrization

Polishing Up LaTeX2HTML

Mathematical Logic: Compactness and Colourability

Outline: Loop Groups and Loop Braiding

Largest Rectangle in Ellipse

Three Kinds of Graphs: Empirical Data

Three Loop Four Ridge Tubular Braid (L2 R1): Follow the Score (Part 1)

Three Loop Four Ridge Tubular Braid (L2 R1): Overlapped Tracks + Strand Orbit

Three Loop Four Ridge Tubular Braid (L2 R1)

Week Notes 33

Term Test 1 Q2: Transformation of Graphs

Q17 S4.1 Related Rates: Cube

Complex Exponential Locally

Multivariable Chain Rule

Week Notes 34

Braids: Track Plan from Braid Word (Slightly Broken Example)

Week Notes 32

Hessian Matrix Inconclusive at Global Minimum

Biggest Rectangle Under Parabola Part 2

Biggest Rectangle Under Parabola Part 1

Applying to Grad School (Part 2)

Applying to Grad School (Part 1)

Undefined Critical Points Exist!

Derivatives and Gradients

Samira's Braid Word

The Box is Open

Open Sets

Derivative as Linear Transformation

Normal vs Boundary Points

A New Four Strand Braid

Twists: Braid Word to Track Plan

Twists: Track Plan to Braid Word

Week Notes 31

Domain of Square Root of Polynomial

Braiding Presentation Notes

Drawing A Slope

Sliding Block Puzzles: A Simple Configuration Space and Gluing

Sliding Block Puzzles: The Sphere Problem

OS 3.2 Q 93 Rate of Change of Grade as a Function of Studying

Working Backwards from a Limit to a Derivative

Fractions and Derivatives

Derivatives: Secant Lines

Derivatives

Absolute Value: |x| by x (Part 2)

Absolute Value: |x| by x

Absolute Value

Week Notes 30

B41: John's Example of f(c(t))

S3.5 Q183: Quotient Rule

S3.6 Q223: Chain Rule

Presenting Groups: Klein Four

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