Ken Ribet’s Favorite Theorem
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In today’s episode of our podcast My Favorite Theorem, Kevin Knudson and I were happy to welcome Ken Ribet on the show. Dr. Ribet is a math professor at the University of California Berkeley and president of the American Mathematical Society. You can listen to the episode at kpknudson. [...]
Stepping into a Three-Torus
Earlier this month, my travels took me and my spouse to Copenhagen. While trying to get the most out of an 8-zone transit pass, we took the train to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, which has a beautiful setting, an affectionate resident kitty, and gorgeous views across Øresund to Sweden. Unbeknownst to us, it also has an art installation [...]
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 [...]
Emily Riehl’s Favorite Theorem
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In today’s episode of our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I were happy to welcome Emily Riehl to the show. She’s a mathematician at Johns Hopkins University, and like our previous guest John Urschel, she’s also a football player. (She plays Australian rules football, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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