Author Archives: Adriana Salerno

The case of the kidnapped professor

This year, I got to teach a Number Theory course during our Short Term, and for this blog post I want to write a bit about the experience, but mostly about the final project I gave my students, which was … Continue reading

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A day with Sonia Kovalevksy

Since 1985, the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have been funding the Sonia Kovalevsky days, which are math programs for high school or middle school girls hosted at universities and colleges. This past … Continue reading

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Women of Modern Mathematics

A few weeks ago, IBM premiered their new iPad app, The Minds of Modern Mathematics. This is an interactive timeline spanning from 1000 to 1950, with bios of famous mathematicians and their important results. Many of you have seen a … Continue reading

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