Monthly Archives: July 2014

The teaching lives of others

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Adriana Salerno

From the time that you finish taking courses in graduate school, until you have to evaluate other people’s teaching (for tenure and promotion, say), you could get away with not watching anyone else teach. Of course, we see talks at … Continue reading →

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Number Theory, the African Queen

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Adriana Salerno

“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.” – Carl Friederich Gauss. This month, I had the incredible honor of teaching at a summer school on “Algebraic Number Theory and Applications” in Dangbo, Benin.  It was a unique opportunity, … Continue reading →

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