Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three

“I am aware of the Warriors’ push for seventy-three wins,” Ken Ono, a professor of mathematics at Emory University and the author of “The Web of Modularity: Arithmetic of the Coefficients of Modular Forms and q-series,” said recently, just before the Golden State Warriors won game number seventy-two, tying the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls for the most victories in a single season by a team in the National Basketball Association. “I was a huge Bulls fan back in the day,” Ono continued. “I went to college at the University of Chicago. Also, I enjoy the fact that Michael Jordan performed well in his math classes at the University of North Carolina. One of my friends had him in class in the early nineteen-eighties, and I remember him telling me that M.J. was a surprisingly strong math student.”

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