Emmy Noether: I am not a woman mathematician, I am a mathematician.
The painter Jean-Micheal Basquiat was famously quoted as saying “I am not a black artist, I am an artist.” His words challenge us to look at art with an open mind, without preconceptions based on the artist’s ethnic background. The quote resonated with me as I wandered the AGO looking at his richly expressive paintings….
Cops and Robbers
Imagine an intruder is loose on a network, and you are trying to capture them. You control a team of searchers, and both you and the intruder have clear rules about the limits of your powers. For example, you could be restricted to move only to nodes, and move between nodes which share a connection….