A Surprised Woman Working Overtime

I'm a regular reader of Lotsa 'Splainin' 2 Do, celebrated blog of the illustrious Matty Boy.

One of his entertaining recurring features is They Wouldn’t Believe Me&trade.

The last several times he's published this feature he's used a graphically striking picture of a surprised woman against a yellow background:



For lunch today I grabbed something from my company's cafeteria to bring back to my desk. As I was waiting to get my food, I glanced around and saw some "health" pamphlets arranged against a wall. One pamphlet immediately drew my attention. I had to pick it up and take it home:



I tell you, some of my most cherished moments in life are seeing things like this. There's some stock photo of a surprised woman floating around, which a health pamphleteer took and shoved an enormous image of food in front of. This is golden to me, people. GOLDEN.

I'm so happy with this discovery I am making a surprised woman with food composite image in Matty Boy's honor.

The Idea Of Progress Is In Disguise And Throwing Down Some Serious Math In Russia

Via my idiosyncratic blog-reading habits, I have been led to discover a very surprising blog-math revelation.

I was reading the latest post from Matty Boy regarding a mathematician in Russia who recently proved the Poincaré Conjecture.

The post included a picture of the mathematician, Grigori Perelman.



And then it hit me. This was not Grigori Perleman, but the blogosphere's very own The Idea Of Progress, cleverly disguised!



Why is he in disguise? Does he not want to jeopardize his "Sexiest Man Alive" title? Isn't this the 21st century, Mr. Of Progress? Math is the new sexy!

Or, am I spoiling a surprise you were to unleash on the public on Idea of Progress Day?

Either way, congratulations!

Celebrating Math With Matty Boy

I really enjoy when someone expresses an interest in something that I have a degree of familiarity with, but displays a knowledge deeper and a passion greater than my own about it.

Their excitement about a subject is often infectious, and their posts are a pleasure to read.

In honor of Matty Boy and his ongoing series of posts on math, I present one of my favorite equations:

1111² = 1234321

So, what's your favorite mathematical equation?