The Sciences
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Poincaré Homology Sphere
If it quacks like a sphere…
Stories by Evelyn Lamb
Space & Physics
That Time Marie Curie Was Just Trying to Get the Electricity Running
Repeat Nobel Winners, they’re just like us!
Medicine
Review: Through the Shadowlands
Julie Rehmeyer’s new memoir is a moving portrait of a person living expansively in the face of setbacks and limitations
The Sciences
What Does Compactness Really Mean?
It took me a long time to understand the mysterious mathematical property of compactness
The Sciences
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Douady Rabbit
Come for the fractals. Stay for the bunny puns
The Sciences
Math under My Feet
I took a walk and tripped—almost literally—over a beautiful octagonal tiling
The Sciences
Wrong in Public: the Paris Streets Edition
Rue Sophie Germain is not the only Paris street named for a mathématicienne
The Sciences
Thank You, Sophie, and I'm Sorry
I wish we got to read a different story about Sophie Germain
The Sciences
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Pseudosphere
A natural habitat for hyperbolic geometry
The Sciences
Anti-Immigration Is Anti-Mathematics
Mathematics and mathematicians thrive when they can travel freely around the world
The Sciences
The Serenity of Kakeya
I turn to the Kakeya needle problem for reassurance in difficult times
The Sciences
The Hottest New Pi's to Celebrate for Pi Day
The euclidean circle constant? Been there, done that. Here are some other π's you might consider
The Sciences
Being a Trans Mathematician: A Q&A with Autumn Kent
"Being trans is beautiful"
The Sciences
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Fatou's Pancake
Because “the bounded Fatou domain of the function f(z)=(z+z^2)/2” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue
The Sciences
How to Celebrate Fatou's Day
A calendrical-linguistic coincidence leads to a thrice-in-a-century holiday.
The Sciences
Language and Error-Correcting Codes
Contemplating communication with Claude Shannon
The Sciences
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Mandelbrot Set
It's a ubiquitous badge of mathematical pride. But what *is* it?
The Sciences
An Unexpected Encounter with Set Theory in the Wild
How a routine trip to the art museum became a meditation on the empty set
The Sciences
It Happened to Me: I Got Trolled by a Theorem
Wilson's theorem is why we can't have nice things
The Sciences
Happy Birthday, Roots of Unity!
A post to commemorate this blog's fourth trip around the sun
