Tag: math

Iranian-American the First Woman to Win the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics”

Click here to read at Mother Jones.

Meet Maryam Mirzakhani…

Nobel Prize-winner Maryam Mirzakhani

Nobel Prize-winner Maryam Mirzakhani

From the NYT Book Review Section, ‘Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration’

Read at NYTimes.com.

Janna Levin discusses THE GLASS UNIVERSE: HOW THE LADIES OF THE HARVARD OBSERVATORY TOOK THE MEASURE OF THE STARS by Dava Sobel and HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE by Margot Lee Shetterly.

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Watch the Trailer for ‘Hidden Figures,’ About the Black Women Behind NASA’s Early Days

Partake in the #blackexcellence at The Mary Sue.

All we can say is: I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT.

Racism in Algorithims and Their Real World Impact

LINK: Intent is irrelevant when hate has such dangerous sway

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Racist algorithms: how Big Data makes bias seem objective

LINK: Can computers be racist?

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The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina

And How He Shaped the Course of Medicine

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Rap music created by an algorithm?

The Math of Hip Hop

MATH

Indian Students Use Mental Abacus Technique to Make Impressively Fast Calculations in Their Heads

Click here…

Speechless.

(Via The Laughing Squid)

The White House Brings Back ‘We the Geeks’ Series to Celebrate Black Talent in STEM

Government partners with Google + Hangouts to present the series.

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Mathematician Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery

The Pursuit of Mathematic Beauty

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The Video Of Yitang Zhang’s Discovery