Math
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Marcus du Sautoy’s The Secret Mathematician: Architecture
Marcus du Sautoy is a mathematician known for bringing an appreciation of mathematics to the masses. He’s done many television…
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Is the LHC an expensive art installation?
There are reams of writing, hours of talks, and TV programs by scientists on the manifestation of beauty in physics…
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Primal Screams: Sophie Germain’s Mathematical Labors (Women in Science 55)
It’s a well known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent…
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Labor pains–Piper Harron’s mathematics thesis
I’ve recommended a lot of books to people over the years for their various merits. I’m recommending that everyone read…
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The Women in Science Reading List: The Twenty Best (And Four Not Best) Books To Read and Own
When I first started collecting biographies of female scientists, I thought the genre, thanks to the historical and systemic neglect…
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Western Science’s Last Breath Before Dying: Hypatia Of Alexandria (Women in Science 49)
By 400 CE, Alexandria was a nervous husk dancing the edge of zealous self-annihilation. For centuries the intellectual capital of…
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Ada Lovelace and the Curious Practice of Programming for Non-Existent Computers (Women in Science 45)
What did Ada Lovelace do? She is one of the most fetishized scientists today – at conventions when I’m taking…
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Grace Hopper and the Democratization of Computer Programming (Women in Science 35)
In a room across the hall from where I teach, a group of a dozen kids between the ages of…
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