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Mathy Ladies to Follow on Twitter
Image: Design Shack
In the current issue of the Association for Women in Mathematics newsletter(password required), Anne Carlill asks where the female mathematicians are on Twitter:
“I found that the only female mathematicians or math educators I followed were Nalini Joshi in Sydney and Fawn Nguyen in California. In contrast there are about 1 [...]
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.
Like the ini [...]
Wear Your Geeky Heart on Your Sleeve,...
Over at Roots of Unity, I wrote about a “geek chic” fabric design contest.
I had been aware of Spoonflower for a while, but I really got excited about fabric design at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January. I attended a talk by Frank Farris, a mathematician at Santa Clara University, in which he described how he used Spoonflo [...]
March Madness Math: Are the “Dr...
This post has become painful for me following Baylor’s premature elimination from the women’s tournament, but I present it here anyway.
The opening tip of the 2012 NCAA women’s basketball championship game, played April 3, 2012. My Baylor Lady Bears, led by #42 Brittney Griner and #0 Odyssey Sims, defeated Notre Dame 80-61. [...]
91 Is April Fooling You
7 × 13 pieces of beach glass found on the shore of Lake Michigan and arranged on my coffee table.
On April Fools’ Day, I wrote about 91, a non-prime that looks prime and has fooled me more than once.
You can generate your own fake primes, or Lamb pseudoprimes, by finding any two or more prime numbers other than 2, 3, 5, and 11 and multi [...]
Strength in Numbers: Mathematicians U...
A satellite view of Earth. Mathematicians across the globe are devoting 2013 to studying the mathematics behind a wide range of processes on our planet.Image: NOAA/NASA/GOES Project.
Over at Scientific American, I wrote about the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 initiative.
What do polar ice caps, guinea worm disease and wildfires have in com [...]
Joint Math Meetings Wrap-Up
Over at Roots of Unity, I wrote a wrap-up of some of my and other people’s coverage of the Joint Math Meetings back in January.
Getting my blog on in the Joint Math Meetings press room. Image: American Mathematical Society.
From my coverage of Fields medalist Cedric Villani’s Gibbs lecture: “You should call it entropy, for t [...]
Wrong in Public: the 4-Color Theorem ...
One of my readers pointed out an error in my recent post about the 4-color theorem. I wrote an update that reframes the theorem in terms of graph theory and talks about some corollaries of the theorem.
A diagram I created that illustrates part of an argument about the 4-color theorem.
My reasoning was that we could take a region of a map that [...]
Interview on Math Tango
“Shecky Riemann” of Math Frolic and Math Tango asked me a few questions about my approach to writing about math.
“I try to see myself as an entertainer at least as much as an educator. For the most part, I want my pieces to make people happy. If they learn something as well, that’s a nice bonus.”
You can read the [...]
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