My first CTAN contribution lives in the intersection of three of my obsessions: trains, fonts, and LaTeX. ctan.org/pkg/nycbullets
CTAN: Package nycbullets
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Matthew Leingang
@matthewleingang.bsky.social
NYU Clinical Professor of Mathematics. Expat Hoosier and Canadaphile. Father of two 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ and marathoner of fifteen. He/him/his
Congrats to my office neighbor Hong Wang! This as close as I have ever been to a Fields Medal www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...
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Saw a transit worker using a long pole with a claw and a flashlight attached to the end, fishing it down around the subway tracks. “Are you conducting a rat census?” I asked him. He laughed and said “Nope, looking for a lost phone”
Happy Indiana Pi Day to all who celebrate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana...
Indiana pi bill - Wikipedia
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On the last day of teaching before Spring Break, the lecture topic is strong induction. A good day to use this mug, a gift from a student
Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia! The closest thing we’ve got to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day - Wikipedia
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News from work: The Courant Institute is now the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
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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)
47th first day of school. About to preach the good news of the fundamental theorem of calculus to 200 students. Wish me luck!
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
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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 🎉
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...
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...
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Increase a band Here’s one where both bands are real: U2 -> Us3
And you thought George Will was uptight. I give you: George Will’s comment section
Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · last yr.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:
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.”...
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Sad press conference seated in front of a fake plant, a Keurig machine, and a (punched?) hole in the wall
