I’m Not Celebrating Pi Day This Year
March 14th, 2013 |
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On the one hand, I like Pi Day because I get to eat pizza and/or pie, and I like things that get people excited about math, but on the other hand, I’m an adult, and I get to eat pizza and/or pie whenever I want, Pi Day or no. Like Matt at Math Goes Pop, [...]
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Joint Math Meetings Wrap-Up
February 16th, 2013 |
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I wrote a few blog posts while I was at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in January, but now you can read some more comprehensive coverage of the meetings at the American Mathematical Society website. In addition to AMS staff members, there were three of us former AAAS-AMS Mass Media Fellows in the press room, [...]
Keep reading »Try Your Hand at Hands-on Math
January 29th, 2013 |
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On Sunday, I wrote about my public statistics session at ScienceOnline. Today, I’ll tell you a little about my other session, Hands-on Math, co-moderated by Matthew Francis. If you come to our session, you might get to take home a mathematical surface of your very own. Meet Ellie. She may look like an oddly shaped [...]
Keep reading »Knotty Fun at the Joint Math Meetings
January 12th, 2013 |
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Anyone with necklaces or lace-up shoes has some first-hand experience with knots, but believe it or not (knot?), there is an entire mathematical discipline dedicated to studying knots and some closely related concepts. A mathematical knot is almost like a real-world knot, but it can’t have any ends. So if you’re thinking of a shoelace, [...]
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