Monthly archives for December, 2018
Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich
I recently read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich as part of by Nobel laureate reading project, which is still slowly chugging along. She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015.
This book took me about a month to get through, and while I’m glad I did, I probably won’t be reading more of her work anytime soon. The book contains mostly [...]
What Are the Odds of a Family with 14...
A few months ago, I read an article about a family with 14 children, all boys. That is a lot of boys! My first thought was what their grocery bills must be. (Whether they’re all boys or not, a family with 14 kids has multiple teenagers for decades. I remember fondly the damage I could do at my favorite all-you-can-eat pizza buffet when I was [...]
What I Wrote in November 2018
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What I wrote
On our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with math communicator and letter-folder extraordinaire Katie Steckles about the fold-and-cut theorem and s [...]
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