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Author Archives: Adriana Salerno
Leveling the playing Fields
As has been widely disseminated in all sorts of media outlets this past week, the Fields Medals were announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians on August 13. My fellow AMS blogger Brie Finegold has rounded up many of the blogs and articles on … Continue reading
Posted in Fields medal, minorities in mathematics, women in math
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The teaching lives of others
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
Posted in inquiry-based learning, science and humanities, teaching
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Number Theory, the African Queen
“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
Posted in CIMPA research school, conferences, ICTP, summer school
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