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What I Wrote in March 2018
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I took at look at a conversation in theoretical computer science about double blind peer review.
Kevin Knudson and I published two new episodes of our podcast My Favorite Theorem. [...]
Prose and Prose-Poems of Gabriela Mis...
In 1945, Gabriela Mistral became the first Latin American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. I recently picked up Selected Prose and Prose-Poems, a collection of her work published in 2002. Works in the book appear both in the original Spanish and translated into English by Stephen Tapscott. I wished the book had dated the work. I w [...]
What I Wrote in February 2018
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I reviewed From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections by Gareth E. Roberts for the American Mathematical Monthly. If you can’t get behind the paywall there, you can [...]
Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was the most recent Nobel laureate in literature. I read Remains of the Day in graduate school, and I’m left with memories of restraint and quiet regret but not a lot of more distinct feelings or pictures. I was planning on rereading that one, but it was checked out from my library while the ebook of Nocturnes was availab [...]
What I Wrote in January 2018
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This is what I wrote in January 2018:
We’ve been making some energy efficiency improvements on our house, and we might be adding solar panels soon. I rounded up some blogs I’ [...]
What I Wrote in December 2017
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This is what I wrote in December 2017:
We published two episodes of My Favorite Theorem. Justin Curry talked to my cohost Kevin Knudson about Platonic solids, and Ami Radunskaya talked to me [...]
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
I read A Moveable Feast earlier this year as part of my Nobel literature project. (I read Old Man and the Sea in high school and A Farewell to Arms in college, but I’d want to revisit them before writing anything about them.) I read A Moveable Feast in Paris, where I was living a five-minute walk or so from 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, t [...]
Sula, Toni Morrison
I read Sula by Toni Morrison last December as part of my Nobel literature project. I read The Bluest Eye and Beloved in college. All three books have unsettled me and left me feeling like I need…something. I’ve been trying to write this reflection for a year. As the book fades from my memory, I feel like I need to at least say something [...]
What I Wrote in November 2017
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This is what I wrote in November 2017:
Kevin Knudson and I were pleased to be on Relatively Prime, a math podcast by Samuel Hansen, promoting our podcast My Favorite Theorem. You can listen to [...]
What I Wrote in October 2017
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This is what I wrote in October 2017:
“Never send a dynamicist to do a geometer’s job.” My take on what household chores you should do based on your mathematical interests. I [...]
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