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Aug 1, 2022

How Can We Picture Information? How Can We Model It Mathematically? Part II

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin This month’s essay completes a thread commenced with the May, June and July posts. Last month, I described the sequence of events that led me to join an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) in 1987 to try and develop a…

Jul 15, 2022

Testimonios: Dr. Alexander Díaz-López

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Jul 12, 2022

Caffeine: The Frenemy of Mathematicians

By Alexis Newton Alexis Newton As a mathematician, I have a love-hate relationship with coffee — which is to say, caffeine — of longstanding. The baristas at my habitual Starbucks knew me so well as an undergraduate that they would see me in line and start my order: a grande vanilla sweet cream cold brew….

Jul 8, 2022

A Mathematician, a Chemist, and an Economist walk into a Classroom . . . to Work on Calculus Curricula

By Suzanne Dorée Suzanne Dorée How do other disciplines use calculus at the undergraduate level? What mathematical questions will students see in partner discipline courses? What vocabulary and notation do other disciplines use to describe that mathematics? When will students use technology to address mathematical questions in other disciplines, and what technologies do they use?…

Jul 1, 2022

How can we picture information? How can we model it mathematically? Part I

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin This month’s essay continues a thread commenced with the May and June posts. In 1958, Harold (Hal) Leavitt (1922–2007), a managerial psychologist, and Thomas Whisler (1920–2006), professor of industrial relations, both at the University of Chicago, published what would prove to be a highly influential article in the Harvard Business Review…

Jun 15, 2022

Testimonios: Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Jun 1, 2022

The Secret to Powerful Math is Often a Simple Diagram

By Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin This month’s essay continues a thread commenced with last month’s post. I gave a guest lecture at a local retirement community recently, my first in-person speaking gig since the start of the pandemic. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, my audience was, as I had initially assumed (and was confirmed…

May 15, 2022

Testimonios: Dr. Jessica M. Deshler

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Apr 15, 2022

Testimonios: Dr. Jesús A. De Loera Herrera

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Feb 15, 2022

Testimonios: Dr. Minerva Cordero

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…