Category Archives: mathematicians in mass media

The Man Who Knew The Man Who Knew Infinity

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Adriana Salerno

It is an exciting time for people who love movies and math. The Imitation Game, a biopic about Alan Turing, comes out this November, and a Ramanujan biopic, The Man Who Knew Infinity, based on the biography by Robert Kanigel, … Continue reading →

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A jolly good fellowship

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Adriana Salerno

If you have read the “about me” part of this blog, you may already know that my first experience with writing about mathematics for a general public was the AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowship during the summer of 2007. I published … Continue reading →

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Rapunzel: The new math heroine?

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Adriana Salerno

Yesterday, the Women in Film Foundation announced the recipients of the 2012 Film Finishing grant. There were two narrative films and seven documentaries awarded the grant, but the film that caught my attention is an animated short called “The Etymology … Continue reading →