Month: December 2023
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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,…
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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,…
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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.…
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How can we know what we deserve when toxicity is the norm?
Editorial note from MKL: This article was written for the Early Career Section of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and it will appear in the February 2024 issue. I am sharing it early as a preprint in the hopes that it will be useful for incoming graduate students, postdocs, and other junior mathematicians…