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What I wrote
- Math by the Book, a collection of some math book blogs.
- On the My Favorite Theorem podcast, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with Jayadev Athreya and Nalini Joshi. Tune in for trees, numbers, complex analysis, and Burmese food!
- April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month. Ergo, it’s Math Poetry Month. I wrote about math poetry, featuring math poet and blogger JoAnne Growney, for Smithsonian Magazine. (Good news! Even though you’re seeing this article in May, too late for Math Poetry Month, math, poetry, and their intersection can all be enjoyed in any month of the year.)
- I’ve admired the excellent math writing at Quanta Magazine for a long time, and I was pleased as punch to be able to write my first article for them. It’s about how biologist Aubrey de Grey made a breakthrough in an old question in graph theory in his spare time. I also wrote a little bit about the Moser spindle, a graph de Grey based some of his work on.
- I also had my first byline for Symmetry Magazine, published by Fermilab and SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a physics research lab, not the Salt Lake Acting Company, where I saw a very enjoyable production of Fun Home a few days ago.) My article is about the relationship between physics and math. It’s far too large a subject to dig into in one little article, but there are some fun nuggets in there.
- I wrote about the Math Center for Educational Programs at the University of Minnesota (pdf) for the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. MathCEP won the 2018 AMS award for Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department.
- The Metonymy of Matrices, a meditation on literary devices and arrays of numbers.
- McGraw Hill Education interviewed me for their math careers spotlight column in April.
- On April 22, the Blog on Math Blogs turned five years old, and I wrote my last post for them. It’s time for me to focus on other projects, but I know the blog is in good hands with Anna Haensch, who has been writing it with me for several years.
- For #womencomposerswednesday, I shared music by Kala Ramnath, Aftab Darvishi, Inés Thiebaut, and Unsuk Chin.
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