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Mathematician Joan Birman is still active at 99 years old,
and has an important new result on the Burau representation.
This is the result of a project that began when a high school student,
Vasudha Bharathram, came to Birman for help in learning more math and finding a problem to work on.
Bharathram will be a beginning Ph.D student at Princeton in fall.
The third member of the collaboration is Tara Brendle, a student of Birman’s.
This collaboration mu…

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4
In this paper we use ideas introduced earlier by Moody, Long, Long-Paton, and Bigelow to prove the theorem of the title, that the Burau representation of the classical braid group is faithful for n = 4. An immediate corollary is that the Jones representation of the braid group is also faithful for n = 4.

Key Trump legislative advisor to depart with potentially bruising midterm looming (Alayna Treene/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/politics/trump-legislative-advisor-james-braid-departing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p19#a260820p19

The Gardens Between (Multi, XPd on PS5) 2 friends must solve puzzles by manipulating time.

So this one is obviously inspired by Braid. Lot of the same mechanics using forward and backward time "travel". Instead of a platformer tho, this is more of a walking sim. Walking forward or backward and one interaction button is all you have here, but it's plenty.
Some great music in this game. I like the art style, simplistic but expressive. For being as short as it i…

Frida Khalo was such a legend. I can't say anything that hasn't already been said, because she is so iconic. But for me, her self determination and control of her own image in the face of her illness and disability is the lesson we could all take from her. #Tate #art