• End of Term Post Script

    The following is a guest post written by someone who is not me who has finished their first term teaching at a prestigious boarding school which is not the one I teach at.  Open letter to [someone’s] students: Congratulations on making it through another term at [school]! I know I was technically your math teacher,…


  • Round-up of JMM 2024 Sessions on Issues of Diversity, Equity, Social Justice, and Affinity

    Round-up of JMM 2024 Sessions on Issues of Diversity, Equity, Social Justice, and Affinity

    The 2024 Joint Meetings of the Mathematical Societies (JMM) will be held in San Fransisco January 3-6. [Editorial note: I continue to have issues with conferences without virtual participation options, I was concerned about some of the fine print at registration, and I struggled to find a space to talk about teaching.] Continuing our tradition,…


  • Testimonios! Lathisms: Latinx and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences

    Testimonios! Lathisms: Latinx and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences

    [Editorial note: This final monthly Testimonios post is the Preface of Testimonios as well as the short biographies of the book editors.] It is often the case that mathematical proofs and theorems seem to magically appear out of thin air—as if in that magical moment of epiphany, the proof wrote itself in its beautiful form.…