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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 [...]
What I Wrote in September 2017
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This is what I wrote in September 2017:
The Public Domain Review highlights weird and wonderful old books and other media. I wrote about some of its mathematical offerings.
The AMS Notices aske [...]
What I Wrote in August 2017
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This is what I wrote in August 2017:
You may have heard that a 3700-year-old Babylonian tablet shows that Babylonians had trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks did! The tablet is a fascina [...]
What I Wrote in July 2017
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This is what I wrote in July 2017:
Mathematics in the Eye of the Beholder. Want to look at some math pictures? Of course you do! Here are some photo-driven math blogs to follow.
Solving a Rubi [...]
What I Wrote in June 2017
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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 a [...]
What I Wrote in May 2017
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This is what I wrote in May 2017:
The good people at the University of Bristol invited me to give a public lecture called A Guided Tour of Nothing. It was about the empty set. The talk was no [...]
What I Wrote in March and April 2017
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This is what I wrote in March 2017:
Being a trans mathematician: an interview with Autumn Kent March contains both International Women’s Day (the 8th) and Trans Day of Visibility (the 3 [...]
What I Wrote in February 2017
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This is what I wrote in February 2017:
A math lesson from Hitler’s Germany My first article for Undark Magazine is about how math and science can be destroyed by politics. Bummer.
Celebra [...]
What I Wrote in January 2017
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This is what I wrote in January 2017:
More graph isomorphism drama: A roundup of news related to that slippery graph isomorphism problem.
Solidarity with scientists: How scientists [...]
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Kenz...
I finished this book last February, but it was so disturbing I couldn’t bring myself to write about it at the time. This is a collection of four short stories/novellas by Kenzaburō Ōe, who got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1994. The stories are “The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away,” “Prize Stock,” “Tea [...]
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