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What I Wrote in March 2019
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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For Symmetry Magazine, I wrote about Entangle, an exhibit of artwork inspired by physics.
I interviewed Jill Pipher, the new president of the American Mathematical Society and thir [...]
What I Wrote in February 2019
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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For Quanta Magazine, I wrote about recent research showing that only countably many non-intersecting Möbius bands can fit into three-dimensional space. If you don’t know what [...]
What I Wrote in January 2019
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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If you missed Thirdsday this year, no worries: you can file this post away for the next time January third is on a Thursday, which, barring major calendrical reforms, will be in 20 [...]
What I Wrote in December 2018
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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On our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with Anil Venkatesh about how to assign value to everything from votes and vetoes to video game equipment a [...]
Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich
I recently read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich as part of by Nobel laureate reading project, which is still slowly chugging along. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015.
This book took me about a month to get through, and while I’m glad I did, I probably won’t be reading more of her work anytime soon. The book contains mostly [...]
What Are the Odds of a Family with 14...
A few months ago, I read an article about a family with 14 children, all boys. That is a lot of boys! My first thought was what their grocery bills must be. (Whether they’re all boys or not, a family with 14 kids has multiple teenagers for decades. I remember fondly the damage I could do at my favorite all-you-can-eat pizza buffet when I was [...]
What I Wrote in November 2018
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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On our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with math communicator and letter-folder extraordinaire Katie Steckles about the fold-and-cut theorem and s [...]
What I Wrote in October 2018
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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On the My Favorite Theorem podcast, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked to Chawne Kimber about the axiom of choice and quilting and Mike Lawlerabout financial mathematics a [...]
What I Wrote in September 2018
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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On the Lathisms podcast, we featured interviews with Erika Camacho, Federico Ardila, Nicolas García Trillos, and Cynthia Flores. I wrote more about the project and why I think it&# [...]
What I Wrote in August 2018
I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.
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On the My Favorite Theorem podcast, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I had the pleasure of talking with two mathematicians who both liked fixed-point theorems: Vidit Nanda and Holly Kri [...]
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