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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Best and Worst of 2017
As this year comes careening to a screeching halt, it’s time once again for that annual tradition of the best and worst of the year…in math. And what a year it’s been! Where to begin? Let’s start with the good … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC conjecture, bitcoin, blockchain, Capital Currents, Karen Saxe, Maryam Mirzakhani, mochizuki, Navier Stokes Equations, neural networks, nsf, Vladimir Voevodsky, WannaCry
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News in Numbers and Nurturing Numeracy
My attention span is a little short right now. There’s always the news, of course, but the lack of daylight around the end of the year gives me a weird combination of restlessness and lethargy. That’s why one of my … Continue reading
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Tagged Fawn Nguyen, fivethirtyeight
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The Blockchain Party
Maybe you think bitcoin is silly, maybe you think it’s dangerous and socially irresponsible, maybe you’re a bitcoin millionaire (in which case, hi), or maybe you are desperate to join the blockchain party. Whatever your stance, it seems that you … Continue reading
Unsolved Problems in Math Class
A few years ago, I directed a high school summer math program. Half the day was devoted to exploring the delights of modular arithmetic—we ended the summer with a cake decorated with Fermat’s Little theorem!—and half to learning to program … Continue reading