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Nira Chamberlain, the World's Most Interesting Mathematician, describes the delicate mathematics of weather models
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The Journeys of Women in Mathematics documentary diversifies the stories we tell about women in math
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I heard about a 14-boy Michigan family, so I crunched some numbers
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Mike Lawler talks about the most influential paper in his career in finance, teaching math to his kids and ultimate
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The Lathisms podcast shares the varied stories of Hispanic and Latinx mathematicians
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“Mathematician-at-large” James Tanton shares playful mathematics and Sperner’s lemma
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