Monthly Archives: October 2016

The Math of Elections

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Rina Friedberg

It seems like all anybody can talk about right now is the election. And while it has definitely given me a lot to think about in terms of political, cultural, and social problems in America, there’s also some interesting and potentially … Continue reading →

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What is a Manifold? (2/6)

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Behnam Esmayli

We continue from Part One of this journey our attempt to illustrate how one can start with calculus and arrive at the definition of a 1-dimensional manifold. In the previous segment, we concluded with the fact that a curve in  may … Continue reading →

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“A Game With Mirrors”

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Juliettte Bruce

Throughout my grad school experience, from conference registration forms and university-wide surveys to actual grad school applications themselves, I have often run into the following question: Always making me think: Why is this still a thing?

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What is a manifold? Yet another article! (1/6)

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Behnam Esmayli

Why (yet) another article? There are competing theories online about possible interpretations of John von Neumann’s quote, but manifolds are definitely some mathematics that “you don’t understand … you just get used to them,” — at least for a while. In a series of … Continue reading →

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A New Addition!

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Sarah K. Salmon

DJ Bruce will be joining our editorial board as a managing editor! Definitely take some time out of what is sure to already be a busy semester to check out his awesome posts about bias in academia, picking a grad school, … Continue reading →

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