"Pour les érudits comme pour les profanes, ce n'est pas la philosophie mais l'expérience active des mathématiques elles-mêmes qui seule peut répondre à la question : qu'est-ce que les mathématiques ?" – Richard Courant et Herbert Robbins
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"For scholars and layman alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that alone can answer the question: What is mathematics?" – Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
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@sam_hartburn That's very pretty! Your mention of triangles and music reminded me of a diagram system I saw a short while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnetz - and TIL by reading the wikipedia article that it was first described by Euler.

There's an interactive webapp: https://girlinbluemusic.com/interactive-tonnetz/
and several YT videos - this one being the one which introduced me to the concept in the first place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ7LkWCzKxI

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Tonnetz - Wikipedia

Theorem of the Day (January 27, 2026) : Lamé’s Theorem
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Binomial/Lame/TotDLame.pdf
notes : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Resources/TheoremNotes.htm#87

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By now I have a huge pile of scientific papers in #maths and #physics that I thought I should read at some point. So I've decided to start a #dailyPaperChallenge to read at least one of them per day.

Today's paper was "Enumeration and limit laws for series–parallel graphs" from 2007. A series-parallel graph is a graph that can be built from repeatedly inserting multiple parallel edges, and splitting edges with 2-valent vertices. The authors study functional equations for the generating functions of these graphs, and how the number grows for large graphs. This is quite interesting for me since I have done some work on enumerating unlabelled graphs weighted by symmetry factors, whereas they enumerate labelled graphs. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2007.04.011

Problem for January 27th from the 2026 AMS Daily Epsilon of Math Calendar

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