Monthly Archives: July 2020

The Math ∩ Programming Blog

Posted on July 31, 2020 by racheljcrowell

I’m a new reader of Jeremy Kun’s Math ∩ Programming blog. However, it didn’t take much scrolling before I read a post mentioning a tool I’ve wanted to find for quite a while and hadn’t even realized it. In “Contextual … Continue reading →

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Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog: A Tour

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

Dr. Tanya Khovanova is a mathematician whose research interests lie in recreational mathematics, combinatorics, probability, geometry, number theory. Currently, she is a Lecturer and PRIMES Head Mentor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  In To Count the Natural Numbers, … Continue reading →

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Farewell, Roots of Unity

Posted on July 20, 2020 by racheljcrowell

Last month, Evelyn Lamb (former co-editor of this blog) shared her final post for her Roots of Unity blog, which was part of the Scientific American blog network. I’m sad to see such a fantastic math blog come to an … Continue reading →

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Aleph Zero Categorical Blog: A Tour

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

The Aleph Zero Categorical: There can only be one blog is written by Canadian mathematician Dr. Jason Polak. The blog started back in 2011, when Polak began his Ph.D. as a way to “showcase abstraction and its beauty in the … Continue reading →

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An Arbitrarily Close Tour

Posted on July 3, 2020 by racheljcrowell

Annie Perkins, a math teacher for Minneapolis Public Schools, writes the arbitrarily close blog. Here are just a few of the interesting/exciting/compelling components of her blog. #MathArtChallenge posts Perkins has been creating posts for this challenge since March 16 and … Continue reading →

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