Category Archives: Math Communication

Some Revelations In My Tech Free Adventure

Posted on June 11, 2018 by annahaensch

I’m still in Tanzania, still with limited access to technology resources, so I wanted to take this post to share with you a few technology-free mathematical revelations I’ve had during my time here. First, the pedagogical revelation. I’m teaching a … Continue reading →

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Blogs

Posted on April 22, 2018 by evelynjlamb

(You don’t know how long I spent trying to find a word related to math blogging that rhymes with fish.) April 22, 2013, we launched the AMS Blog on Math Blogs with a calendrically appropriate post about the Mathematics of … Continue reading →

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Math by the Book

Posted on April 3, 2018 by evelynjlamb

Many mathematicians are familiar with Paul Erdős’s idea of a proof from The Book. The Book was God’s collection of the most beautiful, elegant, and deep proofs. (Never mind the fact that Erdős was an atheist.) In 1998, Martin Aigner … Continue reading →

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Elevating The Art Of Math(s) Communication

Posted on January 8, 2018 by annahaensch

The 2018 Joint Meetings are just around the corner, and lots of great stuff is going on in San Diego. There will be lectures on current events in math, panels and sessions highlighting inclusion in the field and on January … Continue reading →

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Un-Junking your Charts

Posted on October 17, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Junk Charts is a blog by Kaiser Fung, who describes himself as “the Web’s first data visualization critic.” People have been criticizing and prescribing solutions for misleading data visualization for a long time. (How to Lie With Statistics was first … Continue reading →

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Resources for People Who Wanna Present Stuff Good and Do Other Stuff Good Too

Posted on July 17, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Presentations are hard. You’ve been thinking about something for a long time, and you can get tunnel vision. What do you mean, everyone looking at your poster or going to your talk doesn’t already know why you care about the … Continue reading →

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Mathematics in the Eye of the Beholder

Posted on July 5, 2017 by evelynjlamb

If you’re like me, you might get as excited about the intricate patterns in a museum’s parquet floor as in the art hanging on the wall. I love seeing the world through a mathematical lens and celebrating the patterns built … Continue reading →

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Twitter, but for Math, with Toots

Posted on June 8, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Hooray, it’s yet another social network for you to join! I’m skeptical about new social media, but I’ve been seeing enough posts about mathstodon.xyz that I finally caved and got an account. Mathstodon is the math(s) “instance” of mastodon, a … Continue reading →

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Recommended Reading: Euler, Erdős

Posted on April 18, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Have you ever used an analogy in a conversation only to have the conversation derailed as the person with whom you’re speaking points out that the analogy is not quite perfect in some way? Of course it’s not perfect! If … Continue reading →

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How to Communicate in a Post-Truth World

Posted on February 23, 2017 by evelynjlamb

Fake news is not new. For years I have rolled my eyes and scrolled by quack health and science stories, links from the satirical Borowitz Report shared credulously, and other incorrect information in my Facebook feed. I have often written … Continue reading →

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