Author Archives: Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

About Vanessa Rivera-Quinones

Mathematics Ph.D. with a passion for telling stories through numbers using mathematical models, data science, science communication, and education. Follow her on Twitter: @VRiveraQPhD.

Robert Talbert’s Blog: A Tour

The Fall semester is upon us! While searching for blogs that focused on teaching (and learning), I was happy to find Dr. Robert Talbert’s blog where he shares his ideas on how to keep up with the ever-changing world of … Continue reading

Posted in Blogs, Current Events, Issues in Higher Education, Math Education, people in math | Comments Off on Robert Talbert’s Blog: A Tour

Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog: A Tour

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

Posted in Blogs, people in math, Recreational Mathematics, women in math | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Tanya Khovanova’s Math Blog: A Tour

Aleph Zero Categorical Blog: A Tour

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

Posted in Applied Math, Biomath, Blogs, Theoretical Mathematics | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Aleph Zero Categorical Blog: A Tour

Just Equations Blog: A Tour

Just Equations is a California based project dedicated to advancing math-related policies that give students the quantitative tools they need to advance in college and beyond. The project hopes to achieve this through research and analysis, strategic communications, convening of … Continue reading

Posted in Blogs, Current Events, Issues in Higher Education, K-12 Mathematics, Math Education | Comments Off on Just Equations Blog: A Tour

What does anti-racism in mathematics look like?

This question is on the front of my mind and is followed by how is anti-racism in mathematics practiced? The differences in how members of underrepresented groups, especially those who identify as Black and African American, are treated in the … Continue reading

Posted in BlackLivesMatter, Blogs, Current Events, Math Education, people in math | Comments Off on What does anti-racism in mathematics look like?

Rage of the Blackboard: A Tour

I’ve always found great beauty in the way illustrations can convey a lot of information in a succinct, elegant, and beautiful way. I am a big fan of art especially when it intersects with math. While on Twitter, I ran … Continue reading

Posted in Applied Math, Blogs, Current Events, Math Communication, Mathematics and the Arts, people in math, Physics, Recreational Mathematics, women in math | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Rage of the Blackboard: A Tour

Bastian Rieck’s Blog: A Tour

Dr. Bastian Rieck is a senior assistant in the Machine Learning & Computational Biology Lab of Prof. Dr. Karsten Borgwardt at ETH Zürich. He is interested in understanding complex data sets and topology-based machine learning methods in biomedical contexts. Especially, those related … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Bastian Rieck’s Blog: A Tour

Matt Baker’s Math Blog: A Tour

This week I dived into the math blogosphere and found this cool blog Matt Baker’s Math Blog by Dr. Matt Baker,  a professor, and Associate Dean at Georgia Tech School of Mathematics.  This blog was featured back in 2013 in Evelyn’s … Continue reading

Posted in Blogs, Combinatorics, Math Communication, Number Theory, Recreational Mathematics, Theoretical Mathematics | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Matt Baker’s Math Blog: A Tour

Math in the time of COVID-19

In the past few posts, I’ve been avoiding writing about the current Coronavirus outbreak. Honestly, I’ve been having a hard time coping with the uncertainty and worry about how we are going to survive and move forward from this. Around … Continue reading

Posted in Applied Math, Biomath, Blogs, Current Events, Issues in Higher Education, Math Communication, Math Education, Mental Health, women in math | 1 Comment

Logic ForAll: A Tour

While touring the math blogosphere I was very excited to find ‘Logic ForAll’, a blog dedicated to making math accessible by mathematician and computer scientist Dr. Valeria de Paiva. She also writes in another great blog Women in Logic, which is … Continue reading

Posted in Applied Math, Artificial Intelligence, Blogs, Category Theory, Math Communication, Mathematics and Computing, Theoretical Mathematics, women in math | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments