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This is what I wrote in March 2017:
- Being a trans mathematician: an interview with Autumn Kent March contains both International Women’s Day (the 8th) and Trans Day of Visibility (the 31st). Two good reasons to read this interview with University of Wisconsin-Madison mathematician Autumn Kent. A better reason is that her words are honest, beautiful, and challenging.
- Sometimes, you want your math content in pictures. This blog gives you a beautiful thrice-a-day complex analysis infusion with delightful graphs of complex functions.
- Every March, math enthusiasts either celebrate or endure Pi Day. I’m more in the second camp, but I like to use the holiday to encourage people to learn about some nugget of math they wouldn’t have otherwise. This year, I suggested learning about the different values of π that come up when you start measuring distance differently.
- You can add to the face(s) of mathematics on Wikipedia!
- I talked with some of the mathematicians who have been affected by the executive orders on immigration. Even though the orders have been blocked by courts for now, the uncertainty is also taking its toll.
- This is not a pseudosphere.
This is what I wrote in April 2017:
- Thank you, Sophie, and I’m sorry. Sophie Germain, one of the first women in math, is someone I look up to, but her story also makes me deeply sad.
- Maps and Math Spherical geometry had a moment in the spotlight last month when Boston public schools changed their classroom map projection.
- Recommended Reading: Euler, Erdős My plug for Jean Pierre Mutanguha’s fun blog
- In my earlier post about Sophie Germain, I said Rue Sophie Germain was the only street in Paris named after a woman mathematician. I stumbled on a counterexample just a few days after writing that post, and I got to learn about the first woman to be a full math professor in France, Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin.
- I guess I’m doing a lot of math on my walks these days. On a trip to Germany, I got to geek out with a really neat octagonal tiling on the ground.
- A few of my favorite spaces: The Douady rabbit A blog post about a cool fractal, or an excuse for leporine puns? Why not both?
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