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Author Archives: Adriana Salerno
Love and other parametric curves
This morning, Worlfram Alpha greeted me on facebook with what they call the “cupid curve”, pictured on the left. You can look it up on the actual site to get the parametric equations that give you this curve. Needless to say, … Continue reading
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The take-home lesson from the Harvard cheating scandal
Last Friday, Reuters reported that more than half of the students involved in last year’s cheating scandal at Harvard have been suspended. This was even labeled “the largest academic scandal to hit the Ivy League school in recent memory”. In … Continue reading
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The AWM Mentoring Travel Grant, or how I got to spend three months doing research in Paris
As you may or may not know, I recently spent three months of my pre-tenure sabbatical doing math research in Paris. This was, in large part, thanks to a grant I received from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). … Continue reading
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