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This is what I wrote in May 2017:
- The good people at the University of Bristol invited me to give a public lecture called A Guided Tour of Nothing. It was about the empty set. The talk was not recorded, but you can read the post that inspired it here.
- What are you going to do with that? I compiled some resources for learning about and preparing yourself for math careers outside academia.
- My friend Julie Rehmeyer’s memoir Through the Shadowlands came out this month. It is a moving, beautifully written account of her journey with ME/CFS, a disease science is still trying to understand. I reviewed it here.
- It took me a long time to understand the big idea of the mathematical property of compactness. Despite how complicated it sounds, it really just means a precise way of being small.
- Marie Curie once had to do the 1924 version of emailing tech support to get the lab computers on the university network.
- My favorite space this month was the Poincaré homology sphere. It quacks like a sphere, but it’s not a sphere!
- Best of the Bots: because we might as well see what kinds of recipes, Irish tunes, and paint colors our robot overlords have in store for us.
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