By Shakiyya Bland, Ed.D. Who gets to decide what mathematics is and why it must be done in a particular way?  That question has followed me since I was a student. I remember sitting in middle and high school math classes, flipping through the pages of my textbooks, pausing at the photos of the authors,...

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. Once we get into complex integration, the theorems become much more technical, so in most cases I will simply state the result, possibly with some indication of why it makes sense that it would be true. For anyone...