by Kim | Jan 25, 2019 | Just for Fun, Vol. 25
Shopping for your Math Valentine:...
by Kim | Jan 25, 2019 | Just for Fun, Vol. 25
If you like puzzles, problems of the day, or lifelong learning in the math and science realms, the website https://brilliant.org/ and accompanying app are worth a look. There are several levels of membership. There is a free course level where one can do lessons in...
by Kim | Jan 25, 2019 | Just for Fun, Vol. 25
This 2003 novella from Japanese author Yoko Ogawa (translated by Steven Snyder) has a little bit of a Tuesdays with Morrie feel. The three major characters are a professor with a brain injur and the single mother and her son who take on the task of being the...
by Kim | Nov 27, 2018 | Just for Fun, Vol. 24
Here are some of our instructor faves! Read: How math can help improve the flu vaccine. Thinking about your career? The Chronicle has some suggestions. Listen: Something a little bit different for true crime fans: Sword and Scale a true crime podcast Want to know how...
by Kim | Oct 1, 2018 | Just for Fun, Vol. 23
The Bletchley Circle series is more Downton Abbey than Imagination Game. A lot like Numbers in the way characters pause mid- procedural to explain a code breaking concept, the Bletchley circle series center on a group of women (amateur) crime investigators who...
by Kim | Jul 25, 2018 | Just for Fun, Vol. 21
Mathematical travel: Virtually! One of the beautiful and perhaps underappreciated aspects of mathematics is its appearance in subtle ways throughout our world. Most people are aware that the nautilus shell forms a logarithmic spiral and that the golden ratio...
