Category Archives: minorities in mathematics

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 →

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A mathematician reads the newspaper

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Adriana Salerno

For this edition of the blog, I just wanted to share some of the news stories and blogs that have caught my attention in the past few months, making this more of a meta-blog post. I borrowed the title of … Continue reading →

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