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Kiki Prottsman – Inspired by Math #31 14 Jul 2013 | 07:17 pm
When I interviewed Ken Fan of Girls' Angle I learned about Kiki and her wonderful work. Kiki is passionate about improving people's relationships to computers, beyond basic literacy to programming and...
Is it divisible by 7? Death by regular expression 7 Jun 2013 | 08:33 pm
Here is a fun question at Quora: How does one determine whether a number is evenly divisible by 7? There are some remarkably geeky answers. Those of you who write code might enjoy the second answer, b...
Carnival of Mathematics #99 3 Jun 2013 | 03:55 am
Welcome to Carnival of Mathematics #99. Wikipedia provides some nice trivia about the number 99. 99 is the ninth repdigit, a palindromic number and a Kaprekar number. It is the sum of divisors of the ...
Carnival of Mathematics submission deadline is 6/1 29 May 2013 | 06:26 pm
A friendly reminder: I'll be hosting the next Carnival of Mathematics. Please check out this URL to learn more about the carnival, to vist past carnivals, or to submit your blog article for #99. Submi...
I’m hosting Carnival of Mathematics #99 11 May 2013 | 11:23 pm
I'll be hosting the next Carnival of Mathematics. Please check out this URL to learn more about the carnival, to vist past carnivals, or to submit your blog article for #99. Submission deadline is 6/1...
Michelle Montgomery & Katie Fowler – Inspired by Math #30 25 Apr 2013 | 08:17 am
Math contests can be a lot of fun. SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, puts on a contest every year for teams of high school juniors and seniors to propose a solution to a pressi...
Ken Fan – Inspired by Math #29 22 Apr 2013 | 09:55 am
This podcast is an experimental one in that I didn't script the questions the way I usually do. My guest, Ken Fan, and I both decided in advance that we'd go with the flow. And, in my judgment, this i...
Lance Fortnow: Inspired by Math #28 13 Apr 2013 | 07:34 am
P vs. NP is a problem at the forefront of computer science. Until now there hasn't been a book written for a general audience that introduces the problem and its importance. Lance Fortnow has authored...
Addendum to the Gili Rusak & Mary O’Keeffe podcast 11 Apr 2013 | 04:19 am
Mary O'Keeffe has an article in the Albany Area Math Circle blog expanding on some of the discussion in our recent podcast. And, her daughter Catherine created a transcript of the recording. The trans...
Gili Rusak & Mary O’Keeffe – Inspired by Math #27 1 Apr 2013 | 01:36 am
I first learned of Gili's great mathematical community-building work through this wonderful blog article that Mary O'Keeffe wrote. Gili, a high school sophomore, and Mary, professor and founder of the...
