Short stories about mathematicians and mathematics
I have decided to upgrade the scope of the MathAndCobb Fund. As I explained in my previous post, my content generates "content creator funds" and I decided to give back to the math community, and create my own mini-grant. The MaC Fund was, until now, aimed at graduate students who were going to attend a conference, and the fund provided each student $80-$150. You can see the list of previous…
This post will be updated with deadlines to apply for the MathAndCobb Fund for Mathematical Exploration and also with a list of recipients. Deadlines and Previous Recipients:
I have decided to create a fund to share my (content creator) earnings with grad students in mathematics! We shall call it the "MaC Fund for Math Grad Student Travel," or the "MathAndCobb Fund," or the "MaCTikTok Fund," or the "MaCFund" for short.
The story "The Day She Proved It" has been accepted to appear at The Mathematical Intelligencer, so now, after some few edits, you can read it over there!
In my TikTok account, you can find a series of (comedy) videos that portray a student taking an incredibly difficult and confusing exam, which I call “the TikTok exam.” The exam is now available as a PDF, and can be found here! Enjoy.
What if we pushed proctoring methods to their most draconian extremes? (Fiction.)
Refereeing papers is one of those essential skills of a professional research mathematician that you are never taught how to do but, one day, you will find a referee request in your inbox. Suddenly, you are thrown into the world of refereeing without any proper training. In this blog post, I will give my own take on how to referee (math) papers.
At some point in your career (earlier than you think!) you will need a recommendation letter. Who should you ask and how do you ask for a letter? You are essentially asking someone "hey how do you really feel about me, and would you be willing to put it in writing?" and that's a daunting thought. The goal of this post is to help you navigate this delicate situation.
There is something about prime numbers... An air of mystery surrounds them, that makes them one of the most alluring (and most studied) objects in all of mathematics. In this post, I give a list of my favorite primes, together with some of their fascinating properties.
In each era of the history of mathematics, there have been open problems and conjectures that mathematicians have paid particular attention to, maybe because of the intrinsic beauty of the problem, its perceived importance within an area of study, or simply put, because of the fame that a solution would bestow on the solver.