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This is what I wrote in August 2017:
- You may have heard that a 3700-year-old Babylonian tablet shows that Babylonians had trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks did! The tablet is a fascinating document, but I think this recent research paper about it is overblown. Read why here.
- Vanguard STEM is a website that features information for and about women of color in science, technology, engineer, and math careers. I wrote about it here.
- Back-to-school blogs: a roundup of math blogs for students from elementary to graduate school.
- My Favorite Theorem, the podcast Kevin Knudson and I launched in July, added two new episodes this month. You can now listen to us talk with Dave Richeson and Emille Davie Lawrence about their favorite theorems and more importantly, what foods to consume with them for maximum theorem appreciation.
- Emille Davie Lawrence’s favorite theorem inspired me to write about the projective plane, one of my favorite spaces.
- I was invited to contribute an article to Outside In Makes it So, a compilation of essays about Star Trek: The Next Generation, pretty much the only TV show the whole family could agree on when I was a kid. You can pre-order my take on “Aquiel” and 173 other short reactions to TNG episodes here. The book will be published September 27.
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