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mike  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your job, hubski?

I'm a mathematical artist. I love it. And I feel like a productive member of society. I give courses on math and teaching and math creativity and will be starting my own math learning center this fall. I will soon be a new columnist for the country's math teacher journal, writing on math and creavitivity. (I've got the first column due on Monday and it's not ready -- but there's no minute like the last minute!)

I would not be doing a different job given the choice, but I would be doing more creative work and less work work. I'm getting there...





ao  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What path did you take towards a job like that? I'm a math major and I'm exploring my possibilities.

mike  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hi ao! I wrote a little about it in a comment below. But when I got done with my math undergrad, I didn't actually want a job with math and so I joined the circus. Some years later I decided I wanted to be a high school teacher and went back to school, but life continues to throw curve balls at me and I'm never sure where I'm going to end up!

steve  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A crazy, turbulent, roller coaster path... With a layover in clown college.

mike  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Uhhh, yeah I guess that catches the gist of it!

shibbotech  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That sounds pretty neat! Any thoughts on sacred geometry and the like? I'm curious as to what kinds of courses you go into, and what you mean by the phrase "math creativity".

mike  ·  3210 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm a professor of math and math education. Taught university in the US for 10 years and then moved to Norway to work with the national center for math education. I give courses to teachers, mainly, but also pupils, students and the public. These courses are on any topic: an area in math, or teaching or testing, but my favorite courses are in math art.

I starting making math art about 10 years ago. You can see some at nakedgeometry.com. I took the name as a play on "sacred geometry".