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What I wrote
- On our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with Anil Venkatesh about how to assign value to everything from votes and vetoes to video game equipment and Michèle Audin about Stokes’ theorem and how it inspired a novel she wrote.
- I tried to prove a theorem about 12-tone serial music, but I couldn’t because it’s false.
- I wrote about the documentary Journeys of Women in Mathematics.
- I read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich and wrote a little bit about it.
- I wrote a very weird poem to help you remember the new largest known prime number.
- I think I forgot to mention the Lathisms podcast in last month’s newsletter. In that series, I’ve been talking to Hispanic and Latinx mathematicians about their educational and career paths. Since the last time I mentioned it, we’ve published interviews with Adriana Salerno, Marcelo Aguiar, Mariel Vazquez, Ricardo Cortez, Ivelisse Rubio, Richard Tapia, and Moira Chas. Whew! It’s a great bunch of interviewees. Each episode is between 15 and 20 minutes, so find a sliver of time and take a listen. The list of episodes is on the Lathisms website.
- January 3 is on a Thursday this year, so Jim Propp has declared it Thirdsday. I wrote some suggestions for celebrating this holiday, which we will not get to celebrate again until 2030.
- For #womencomposerswednesday, I shared music by Anohni, Bobbie-Jane Gardner, Maija Einfelde, and Fanny Mendelssohn. I’ve really enjoyed listening to so much new music by women, men, and nonbinary people this year, and I am excited to keep sharing music by women in 2019!
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