Posts tagged math blogs
The Poetry of Calculus
A cylindrical silo in South Dakota, perhaps the basis of a related rates problem in calculus. Image: flickr user Lars Plougmann
“Facing a streetlight under batty moths
And June bugs racheting like broken clock springs,
I stand, for the sake of a problem, on the curb—
Neither in grass nor gutter—while those wings
Switch down the light an [...]
Celebrating the Grandmothers of STEM
Astrophysicist Carol Jo Crannell, mathematician Annalisa Crannell, and Iolanthe Good, three generations of women who love STEM. Image: Ximena Catepillan.
In honor of my grandmother’s birthday last Thursday, I wrote about Grandma Got STEM, a blog that collects stories of older women in science careers.
Some have had illustrious careers a [...]
This Week in Number Theory
A visualization of the twin primes using an Ulam spiral. Created by Silveira Neto and shared under a Creative Commons-attribution-share alike license.
The week of May 12 was pretty big for number theory. I wrote about some of the blog coverage of the two major results.
By now you’ve probably heard the announcements of two big results in numbe [...]
The Mathematics of Planet Earth
This is my first contribution to a new blog hosted by the American Mathematical Society, the Blog on Math Blogs. My co-editor Brie Finegold and I are “touring the mathematical blogosphere” to help people keep up with math news and find new blogs to read. My inaugural post is about the Mathematics of Planet Earth blog.
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