“Julie’s Math Toms”: Osa’s Math Shoes

Julie’s 2017 shoes on the left, Osa’s Math Tom’s on the right!

These shoes are near – copies of my original Math Tom’s that I made myself in 2017. I didn’t like the ones being produced by Tom’s, so obviously, I just took matters into my own hands. So their name isn’t super original, mainly because they literally are duplicates of my shoes!! So amazing. I’ve made it as an artist.

Topics included on the shoes:

  • Spiral
  • Golden Ratio
  • Definition of Derivative
  • Pi
  • Fibonacci Sequence
  • Integration by Parts
  • “Therefore”
  • “The null set”
  • The set of irrational numbers
  • 75 Knot (I loved my knot theory class in college… drawing the knots, and then also having to visualize unraveling them in order to figure out what basic knot they were.)
  • Isosceles Triangle
  • The set of Real numbers
  • Dotted line = boundary line that is not included
  • The graph of a Hyperbola
  • Sphere
  • Second derivative notation
  • Sin/cos trig identity
  • The graph of a Cardioid
  • i
  • The definition of A intersect B
  • Step function
  • Division
  • Symbol for subsection
  • Trig – substitution
  • The elusive expected value of X to the k occurences, l k. (This guy drove me nuts in college! I felt like I was forever wondering, “What the heck is lambda???”)
  • “All things that glitter are not gold.” (I love symbolic logic. There’s something so satisfying in writing out a whole argument using maybe three full words.)
  • “There exists only one Osa.” (The original shoes stated “There exists exactly one shoe!” But that’s no longer true! There are TWO sets of math Toms!! So, I had to adjust it.)
  • Antiderivative of 1/x.
  • Pascal’s Triangle
  • Pythagorean Theorem
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • “The union of the sets of the union of P and R, and of the set of values such that if P than Q.”
  • The domain of y = ln(-x+e)
  • The Field Theory version of Noether’s Theorem expressing the conserved current in the Klein-Gordon Equation. (I did my master’s thesis on the Dirac Particle in a box and thought I’d put an equation on from that genre of mathematics. I chose this equation because it is related to Schrödinger’s Equation for spinless particles and is part of Emily Noether’s work in theoretical physics. Yea women in mathematics!!!)