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This is what I wrote in June 2017:
- June 17 was the second annual celebration of World Tessellation Day. I wrote about my favorite tessellations, the ones you find under your feet on sidewalks and floors.
- The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World. Last year I learned about the idea of the mathematical near-miss, “an exact representation of an almost-right answer,” as Craig Kaplan describes it. In this article for Nautilus, I explore this murky boundary between perfection and imperfection, mathematics and the real world. I also wrote about this idea on my blog: The Perfection of Imperfection.
- Twitter, but for math, with toots. On Mathstadon, a new social media site for mathematicians.
- The Women in Maths Facebook page asked me to write a little bit about how I got into math(s) and my mathematical career path.
- Teaching Math to Incarcerated Students. Resources and inspiration for people who want to teach math in prison.
- I went on a Sofya Kovalevskaya kick this month, reading and reviewing Michèle Audin’s book Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya and writing about a mathematical object she studied, the Kovalevskaya top.
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