Back in September, I published an interview with mathematician and mom Constance Leidy by mathematician and mom Lillian Pierce. It was part of a series of interviews for the Association for Women in Mathematics about how women balance motherhood with their mathematical careers. (You can find another interview in this series at Cathy O’ [...]
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Mathematics + Fatherhood: An Intervie...
Back in September, I published an interview with mathematician and mom Constance Leidy by mathematician and mom Lillian Pierce. It was part of a series of interviews for the Association for Women in Mathematics about how women balance motherhood with their mathematical careers. (You can find another interview in this series at Cathy O’ [...]
Winter Break Reading: Baking and Math
Sierpinski cookies. Image: Lenore Edman, via flickr.
On failure and coconut chocolate chip cookies. “I failed at these cookies. I fail at math sometimes. I am not a failure of a person, and while I enjoy baking and math, being great at either of them does not define me as a person.” I am writing this post after grading my final exams. The exa [...]
Hypocycloids
Rolling rolling rolling, hypocycloids rolling… Image: Greg Egan.
A John Baez blog post about hypocycloids will lovely animations by Greg Egan made my week and inspired two blog posts.
On the AMS Blog on Math Blogs, I wrote about math that’s illustrated with animated gifs. On Roots of Unity, I wrote about the hypocycloids themselve [...]
Counterexamples in Origami
A Schwarz lantern I made with a little help from my friends. The vertices (pointy bits) all lie on a cylinder.
Surfaces are complicated. Triangles are simple. That’s an idea behind some methods of creating computer graphics and some advanced mathematics. If we have a surface, we can take a bunch of points on the surface and connect them [...]
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