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November 8, 2026 at 4:58 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic on AI from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social . We'll miss you, economists. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/reactions

October 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathober 17: dimension invariance, a #mathcomic www.tumblr.com/talkingnumbe...

💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 0 · Dimension Invariance · Mathober 17 is about the Dimension Invariance Theorem that R^n is not homeomorphic to R^m, for m≠n. Obvious? Important? Always reminds me a bit of day 2 of…

October 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic for yesterday's #mathober, the lovely #mathhistory problem of points www.tumblr.com/talkingnumbe...

💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 0 · Problem of Points · Mathober Day 11

October 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

Belated #mathober day 6 #mathcomic connected topology www.tumblr.com/talkingnumbe...

💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 0 · Lets Talk About Sets, Baby · Mathober Day 6: connected topology

September 25th is National Math Storytelling Day. Sue Van Hattum will be hosting a story focused Playful Math Carnival for it. That led me...

October 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathober day 4 linear recurrence... recent 8 part mini #mathstory/#mathcomic mathhombre.blogspot.com/2026/09/sum-...

Sum Number Party

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October 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

The #mathcomic to end all math comics, from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.smbc-comics.com/comic/equations

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Equations

#fractions #mathcomic www.tumblr.com/talkingnumbe...

October 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · In This Corner

September 25th is National Math Storytelling Day. Sue Van Hattum will be hosting a story focused Playful Math Carnival for it. That led me...

October 1, 2026 at 1:04 AM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic #fractionchat Quarterback numbers are supposed to be 0-19, fullback 0-49... what range for thirdbacks?

Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · Sep 27

This week's comic: Thirdback foxtrot.com/2026/09/27/t...

September 27, 2026 at 8:15 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

Here's the little 8 page #mathcomic #mathstory I wrote for Sue's Carnival mathhombre.blogspot.com/2026/09/sum-...

Sum Number Party

mathhombre.blogspot.com

September 27, 2026 at 12:40 AM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic Separate question #cgi

caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · Sep 16

Nancy 9/9/26

The teacher asks Sluggo “if you had five brownies, and Nancy asked for two, how many would you have left?” He responds “zero.”
She’s confused by this, asks him “what-?” He replies “Nancy would never just ask for two.” Nancy sits beside him, smiling slyly.

September 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic #cgi

caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · Sep 15

Nancy 9/8/26

Nancy’s at school…. Her teacher asks her a math problem: if Nancy had three cupcakes, and Sluggo asked her for one, how many would she have left? Nancy’s reply is “three.”

September 23, 2026 at 6:05 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic More than one way to order fractions... www.tumblr.com/talkingnumbe...

Reblog by @talkingnumbers · 1 image

💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 3 · Order in the Court · That one bailiff is very confident. But Judge Ochomayor isn't having it. Mathober 5: order

Reblog by @mathhombre · 1 image

September 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic

caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · Sep 6

Nancy 8/28/26

September 7, 2026 at 11:42 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic

Wrong Hands @wronghands.bsky.social · Sep 4

September 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#unitchat #mathcomic from @xkcd.com xkcd.com/3289/

Highway Signs

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August 25, 2026 at 2:17 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#stats #mathgame idea inspired by an @xkcd.com #mathcomic. www.tumblr.com/mathhombre/8...

💬 2 🔁 364 ❤️ 672 · My actual cosmology final was assuming this constant is this value, calculate the age of the universe. === The game theory one has me thinking of a new game for my stats for…

#mathcomic www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spiral... #spiral @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

August 23, 2026 at 11:08 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

Bizarro not helping the growth mindset in this #mathcomic

$Aftermath: students bemoan radicals and fractions on a test.$

August 23, 2026 at 5:22 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic soooo on point

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Aug 14

The machines see constructive proofs as lazy solutions hacked together.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/case
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

4-panel SMBC comic update. An advanced robot calls to a human saying "human! I have solved all your most difficult mathematics with proofs more beautiful than you could ever imagine!" When the human asks "what," he presents a large stack of papers exclaiming "behold!" The human examines the papers in the stack, saying "none of these are constructive or inductive or… this is like… 80 million pages of case analysis." The robot gushes "so beautiful. Pure concept-free truth." The human states "no human mind could read and follow all of this," leading the robot to insist "so, SO beautiful."

August 14, 2026 at 11:19 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic but the utility function...

SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ironically less crazy than that thing SBF said to Tyler Cowen.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ev-2
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. Two men are talking, the first asks "if you had a choice between ten trillion dollars OR flipping a coin for a 50% chance to win twenty trillion dollars and a shiny button, what would you pick?" Smugly, the second man answers "obviously the second thing. Can you even math?" The caption below the comic reads "People who think Expected Value maximization is always logical weird me out."

July 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spiraling

FoxTrot by Bill Amend | June 14, 2026

June 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

#mathcomic from @billamend.bsky.social foxtrot.com/2026/06/14/n... How much does each bike mile save you? I think we'll be doing this problem in summer algebra!

New Math

foxtrot.com

June 14, 2026 at 9:44 AM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

Alternative proof techniques from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof-5 #mathcomic

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Proof

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Marshmallow

June 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM

John Golden

@johngolden.bsky.social

Prediction: few will find this funny, but those who do... www.smbc-comics.com/comic/marshm... #mathcomic from @zachweinersmith.bsky.social