Women mathematicians in fiction
Alex Kasman (College of Charleston) runs a great site on mathematical fiction, where he describes books, plays, and films featuring mathematics in some way. I found an interesting article by him on women mathematicians in fiction. He found that only about 100 works out of the 900 he catalogues contain female mathematicians. One of the…
History
The picture says it all:
The golden ratio, Fibonacci numbers, and independent sets in graphs
Mathematics was once again in the news recently, when a high school student Joseph Rosenfield discovered an error in the expression for the golden ratio in the Museum of Science in Boston. This is the photo that Joseph took in the museum: The “error” was the negative sign in the expression of the golden ratio. In…
Convocation speech
Today is Ryerson’s Science Convocation, so I thought I would just post the convocation address I gave in 2013. It was such a memorable day, and I look forward to today, despite the stormy weather. 2013 Science Convocation speech Chancellor Bloomberg, President Levy, Provost Lachemi, Dean Coe, other VIPs, members of the Faculty of Science—proud…