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What I wrote
- May 16 was the 300th birthday of mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, who wrote a calculus textbook in the vernacular and then dropped off the face of mathematics after her father died and devoted herself to caring for the sick and poor. I wrote about her complicated life for Smithsonian. I also wrote about the witch of Agnesi, the curve where math students usually encounter Agnesi for the first time.
- It was football month this month on our podcast My Favorite Theorem. Kevin Knudson and I talked with John Urschel and Emily Riehl, both of whom are athletes as well as mathematicians.
- I revisited the Kakeya needle problem when I saw a paper about the Kakeya conjecture in finite planes.
- For #womencomposerswednesday, I shared music by Missy Mazzoli, Minna Keal, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (younger sister of birthday girl Maria Gaetana), Sofia Gubaïdulina, and Augusta Read Thomas.
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