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A moon at 67 percent illumination sits above an ellipse outlined by coral fungus with slight shadow on a dark teal background. A small banana slug moves toward the ellipse of coral fungus wit

Mathober 2026 Art

Below are three galleries. One of fungi and growths, one with p5js and one with Desmos. Existential Closure Thirty-one fungi, lichen, slime molds in mathober-land. Created in procreate using camera-roll images and the Trudell Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest guide. Existential ClosureExistential Closure.pdf3 MBdownload-circle Days

a Square made of many other sized squares and colored with purples, teals, peaches and pinks.

Artsy Math: Squaring Square Patterns

This is the second in a series of posts that blend art and math. Jump in and choose your medium to indulge in creative expression. Many have played with this through the years; a list of references is at the bottom. Thanks to Steve Heller for pinging me to play

A list of days and prompts.

Mathober 2026 Prompts

Are you ready? October is right around the corner and you know what that means? Mathober! This years prompts are on the website mathober.com and below. If you are new to Mathober, no worries, you can jump right in. Each day there is a word or phrase for you

A monotile quilt with yellow and gray patterned tiles on a black background

A Quilt to Celebrate a Monotile

An Aperiodic Monotile was published this week (details are here). To celebrate, I made a quilt with my mom with some occasional kitty input. I put together a quick slideshow of the process (not super detailed, but it will give you the gist of it). Preview of it is below:

a kitty at a chalkboard in a helmet with elemetns of math all around.

Chalkboard Dreams

Kitty dreams of such wonders… @mathart4all requested a t-shirt design that was so much fun to do! The prompt included soma, rubiks, space, Euler’s Formula, The Bridges of Königsberg, and a kitty (of course). If you want to buy this on Bonfire the link is here. However, I am all for supporting local

Evening Grosbeak navigating a prime constellation.

Evening Grosbeak

When contemplating a spirally constellation of twin primes, you may ask, “Just how many are there? – Infinite?” The Twin Prime Conjecture would say so.

chickadee with a slope field and the derivate dy/dx = 2co(x/3) with the rollercoaster flight sketched

Chestnut-backed Chicka-dy/dx

Another Math bird in the series! These little chickadees make the cutest noise. They have had a brood every year in the neighbors gum tree. When I see their rollercoaster flight, I think of slope fields.

I <3 playing with math at the Recurse Center!

Sophia

Mathematics educator and creative coder exploring the beauty of mathematical concepts through interactive visualizations and playful learning.

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