Maryam Mirzakhani passes
Maryam Mirzakhani dies at 40 from breast cancer.… Read More Maryam Mirzakhani passes
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The Erdős effect
Erdős had a role to play with making mathematics more social.… Read More The Erdős effect
All about PageRank
A brief tour of the PageRank algorithm.… Read More All about PageRank
Cell jams and 3.81
Medical physicists uncover how cells jam via a new constant.… Read More Cell jams and 3.81
On being a gay mathematician
My thoughts on being a gay mathematician.… Read More On being a gay mathematician
Interview with a mathematician: Richard J. Nowakowski
In the first of what I hope is an ongoing series of interviews with fellow mathematicians, here is my conversation with Richard J. Nowakowski. We sometimes just call him RJN for short. Richard works on graph theory and combinatorial game theory at Dalhousie University, where he is a University Research Professor. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees under […]
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Interview with a mathematician: Jordan Ellenberg
CanaDAM’17 is underway at Ryerson, and tonight, Jordan Ellenberg is giving the Public Lecture on the cap set conjecture. I’m reposting my interview with him in honor of that occasion. Enjoy! *** Jordan Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He works in… Read More Interview with a mathematician: Jordan Ellenberg
