Posts tagged ‘mathematics’

Science fairs, sexism, academics, empathy, heroines, Mozilla, Python, Rails, more, and a few goodbyes.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Fan Chung, leading combinatorics and graph theory researcher, and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego.

A mathematics Olympian, 1960s computer programmers, a writer who is so sick of tokenism he’d rather be erased, and more!

Talk on June 15 at Melbourne University: Dr Cathy Foley, 100 years later: has anything changed for women in science?: This talk will look at what is the status of women in science in Australia, ...

Jen from epbot (and Cake Wrecks fame) has a post up about this t-shirt… As a woman with a math degree, I know a whole lot more about math than the company making the shirt, ...

This is a guest post by Lindsey Kuper. Lindsey Kuper does math and code and music and splatters it unceremoniously all over the Internet. This post originally appeared at her blog and was linked from ...

Apparently we’ve never had a hyperbolic crochet thread before. Criminal, I say. Here’s an example: Image description: a close-up of a very multi-coloured crochet item, with many curves folding in on itself. Image credit: Michael ...