What I Wrote in January 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 [...]
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
I took Babbitt with me on a trip earlier this summer because my copy is quite small and lightweight and Sinclair Lewis won the 1930 Nobel Prize for literature, and though it is going slowly, I’m still interested in reading Nobel laureates. Around the 80-page mark, I wasn’t so sure. The main character, George Babbitt, was entertain [...]
What I Wrote in July 2018
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My Favorite Theorem, the podcast Kevin Knudson and I cohost, turned 1 year old in July, and we’re still happily chugging along. We are so grateful to the wonderful guests we& [...]
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