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Author Archives: annahaensch
How To Optimize Summer Travel And Not Get Blown Up
Every year I promise myself that I’ll just stay in one place for the summer, and every year that simply doesn’t happen. Today I’m posting from CIRM in Marseille, France. Next week I’m headed to Hong Kong to visit with … Continue reading
Posted in Recreational Mathematics
Tagged Laura McLay, Michael Trick, Operations Research, Patricia Randall, Tallys Yunes, Traffic, Transportation, Travel
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Turns Out You Can Be Diverse and Segregated At the Same Time
Well, it’s official, I’m an unrelenting fangirl for Dustin Cable’s Racial Dot Map and everything it stands for. If you’re not yet familiar, it’s one of the coolest data visualization projects to come out of the census data. The map … Continue reading
Posted in Applied Math, Data Science, Statistics
Tagged Diversity, Dustin Cable, Nate Silver, Race, Racial Dot Map, Segregation
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Caring For The Community
As academic mathematicians, we spend a great deal of our days performing deeds of service to the mathematical community. Editing papers, organizing workshops, contributing to open-source software initiatives. One could even argue that it is out of sheer benevolence to … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing in Math
Tagged Elsevier Boycott, Michael Harris, Tim Gowers
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Online Toolbox For Number Theorists
Sometimes I wonder: how did people do research before the internet? Not only do electronic communication and dropbox folders make long-distance collaborations a piece of cake, there are also just so many useful things on the internet. When I stand … Continue reading
Celebrating Our Sisters in STEM
Did you know that a group of six women programmed the first ever electronic computer? Just one of the interesting facts I’ve learned this March, and in honor of Women’s History Month I wanted to give a well-deserved tip of … Continue reading
Posted in History of Mathematics, women in math
Tagged female mathematicians, gender politics, Grandma Got STEM, Izabella Laba, Jordan Ellenberg, womeninSTEM
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Math In Pictures
When I was in graduate school I mostly worked really hard all the time. Like we all do, right? But occasionally, my officemates and I would get a bit punchy, and the need to blow off steam would momentarily supersede … Continue reading
Posted in Math Education, Mathematics and the Arts
Tagged Ben Orlin, Comics, Math Jokes
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Math For Your Ears
It is undeniable: podcasts are having a moment. The burgeoning podcast culture being shaped by the Radio Labs, 99% Invisibles, and Freakanomics Radios of the world, has gotten me thinking about some of the particular hardships of adapting pure mathematics … Continue reading
Posted in Math Communication, Recreational Mathematics
Tagged Beth Malmskog, math communication, Math Radio, Podcast, Sam Hansen
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Who Is The Anti-vax Movement? Data Science Explains.
It was all theoretical until Jenny McCarthy gave Sidney Crosby the mumps. Then it got real. Ok, I know that’s a sensationalist — not to mention flagrantly untrue — thing to say, but it’s how I suddenly felt a few … Continue reading
Posted in Biomath, Mathematics and Computing
Tagged data science, data vizualization, math, math and health, Statistics
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