Posts in category Month in review
What I Wrote in June 2018
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Kevin Knudson and I published two new episodes of our podcast My Favorite Theorem. Francis Su told us about the Brouwer fixed-point theorem and game theory, and Jana Rodriguez Hert [...]
What I Wrote in May 2018
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May 16 was the 300th birthday of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who wrote a calculus textbook in the vernacular and then dropped off the face of mathematics after her f [...]
What I wrote in April 2018
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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 fo [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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