The Hyperdoors Theory

By Pup Horst A magician searches for community Joe Ledoux is “not” a “mathematician” – he is an artist and a magician. However, he joins the likes of Marjorie Rice and an anonymous internet forum user in crafting new mathematics as inspired by his main interests. He made a new visualization of the hypercube that does...

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Dismantling the Genius: A Pop Culture Lens on Math and Belonging

By Monica Morales Hernandez and Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil Pop culture plays a significant role in shaping societal perceptions of who belongs in mathematics and other STEM fields. Media representations, whether in movies, television, literature, or social media, can either reinforce or challenge stereotypes about mathematicians and scientists. Historically, English-language pop culture has often depicted mathematicians as...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Math

By Reggie Wideman Math was never really my thing. I majored in Eastern Philosophy with minors in Political Science and Creative Writing. True story: I was a Poli-Sci major, but I failed Statistics. Yeah, we had software that did the math, but we still needed to be able to show our work regardless and I...

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Calculus for Teachers: Completeness

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. Last month in my column "Calculus for Teachers: Uniform Continuity'' I explained how Dirichlet plugged the hole in Cauchy's proof that every continuous function is integrable by proving that a continuous function on a closed and bounded interval...

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Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Transition Years in Mathematics Education

By Joel Amidon and John W. Staley  Over the last four years, a group of national mathematics organizations came together with a common purpose: to improve the mathematics experiences and outcomes for students during the final two years of high school and the first two years of postsecondary education—what we call the Transition Years. Through...

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An Unexpected Research Journey

By Lew Ludwig Ten years is a long time to be away from the research table. In that time, I've gained a few gray hairs, lost a few LaTeX shortcuts, and watched the world of generative AI grow from curious whisper to research partner. Lately, I’ve been imagining what it might look like to jump...

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How to Conference

By Asimina S. Hamakiotes Opening remarks When thinking about graduate school, we often think of milestones that include passing qualifying exams, preparing oral exams, writing papers, and defending our thesis. An aspect that is often overlooked or forgotten is attending conferences successfully.  Regardless of whether you attend a conference as a speaker or participant, it...

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Thinking of Bob Moses

By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social My July 2024 Angle post focused on the newly released documentary movie Counted Out, for which I was pleased to have been an advisor. One of the math educators featured in the film was the legendary Bob Moses, who died in 2021. Moses was someone I always wanted to meet, but somehow...

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Civil Society and the Role of Law for our Future

By Michael Pearson As I recently announced on MAA Connect, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) has joined university presidents and scholarly societies in signing A Call for Constructive Engagement on America's Campuses. The full text of the statement reads: As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against...

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QuantNetOhio QUILTs: Weaving Together the Experiences of Quantitative Reasoning Instructors

By Jana Talley For this installment of DUE Point, I sat down with Dr. Gregory Foley of Ohio University to hear about the QuantNetOhio project that unifies Ohio quantitative reasoning (QR) instructors with the intent to enhance teaching and learning experiences at the postsecondary level. Dr. Foley shared how he and Dr. Lee Wayland from...

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