What I Wrote in October 2018

I’ve started a monthly email newsletter collecting my writing, some of the things I’m reading, and a few other odds and ends. You can subscribe here.

• On the My Favorite Theorem podcast, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked to Chawne Kimber about the axiom of choice and quilting and Mike Lawlerabout financial mathematics and ultimate frisbee.
• I host the Lathisms podcast, which shares interviews with Hispanic and Latinx mathematicians. In October, the podcast featured Jonathan Montaño, Omayra Y. Ortega, Jesús de Loera, and Minerva Cordero. You can find all the episodes here.
• For Symmetry Magazine, I wrote about how and why astrophysicists are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to sift through the massive amounts of data in current and future sky surveys.
• They say you can’t be a little bit pregnant, but a number can be almost prime.
• For #womencomposerswednesday, I shared music by Valerie Coleman, Barbara Strozzi, Buffy Sainte-Marie, my good friend Monica Rasmussen, and Miriam Gideon.