Tony Phillips’ Take

Tony’s Take, July 2025

On: August 25, 2025

Tagged: knots, partition, polynomial, roots, unknotting number

Tony’s Take, June 2025

On: July 30, 2025

Tagged: brain, geometry, knots, Laplacian, links, molecules, nanotechnology, neuroscience, perplexane, sound, spectrum, tetrahedron, topology

Tony’s Take May 2025

On: July 30, 2025

Tagged: algebra, biology, black holes, Calabi-Yau manifolds, Catalan numbers, curvature, cusps, differential geometry, flowers, polynomial equations, scattering, string theory

Tony’s Take, April 2025

On: May 23, 2025

Tagged: astronomy, Euclidean geometry, experiment, hyperbolic geometry, math anxiety, math education, planet, testing, three-body problem, triangle, visual geometry

Tony’s Take, March 2025

On: April 30, 2025

Tagged: abstract, concrete, crowd behavior, experiment, lane formation, math education, movement of crowds, partial differential equations

Tony’s Take, February 2025

On: March 20, 2025

Tagged: causality, Emmy Noether, experiment, fluids, humanities, Lagrangian, Mobius strip, Noether's theorem, physics, sciences, symmetry, topology, water, waves

Tony’s Take January 2025

On: February 19, 2025

Tagged: artificial intelligence, Fermat's last theorem, formalization, Joint Math Meetings, Lean, linear algebra, math art, Netflix, recommendation algorithm

Tony’s Take, December 2024

On: January 30, 2025

Tagged: arithmetic, Babylon, cuneiform, geometry, infinite series, irrational numbers, knot theory, rational numbers, Riemann zeta function, string figure

Tony’s Take, November 2024

On: January 16, 2025

Tagged: atrial flutter, biology, linear algebra, medicine, oscillating spring, polarization, systems of equations, thermodynamics, topology

Tony’s Take October 2024

On: December 6, 2024

Tagged: algebra, early grades, math education, Mersenne numbers, physics, prime numbers, proof, string theory, tech