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 [...]
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
I read A Moveable Feast earlier this year as part of my Nobel literature project. (I read Old Man and the Sea in high school and A Farewell to Arms in college, but I’d want to revisit them before writing anything about them.) I read A Moveable Feast in Paris, where I was living a five-minute walk or so from 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, t [...]
Sula, Toni Morrison
I read Sula by Toni Morrison last December as part of my Nobel literature project. I read The Bluest Eye and Beloved in college. All three books have unsettled me and left me feeling like I need…something. I’ve been trying to write this reflection for a year. As the book fades from my memory, I feel like I need to at least say something [...]
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 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 [...]
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