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Happy Birthday, Evelyn Boyd Granville...
Evelyn Boyd Granville in 1997. Photo by Margaret Murray, via Mathematicians of the African Diaspora by Scott W. Williams.
Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, turns 90 today (May 1, 2014).
Although Granville was one of the only black students at both Smith and Yale, she says she never felt d [...]
Collective Nouns for Mathematicians
A “proof” of mathematicians at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. Image: American Mathematical Society.
Every once in a while I stumble on an interesting collective noun, usually for animals: a parliament of owls, a knot of toads, an exaltation of larks. I’ll be at the Joint Math Meetings this week with severa [...]
Felix Klein on Mathematical Progress
A diagram of a Klein bottle, one of the many mathematical objects named after German mathematician Felix Klein. Image: Vierkantswortel2, via Wikimedia Commons.
“With the present means of publication and the continually increasing number of new memoirs, it has become almost impossible to survey comprehensively the different branches of m [...]
Mathematics + Fatherhood: An Intervie...
Back in September, I published an interview with mathematician and mom Constance Leidy by mathematician and mom Lillian Pierce. It was part of a series of interviews for the Association for Women in Mathematics about how women balance motherhood with their mathematical careers. (You can find another interview in this series at Cathy O’ [...]
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