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Archive for June 2012

These people are not male, white, bearded or bald

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 22, 2012

The following images are of black women who are research mathematicians. There are not enough of them, diagnosis and their talents and abilities are not recognized in the wider community to the extent they should be. Young women, especially, young black women, who think mathematics is for old, bald white Aspergic men should think again. […]

Spot the odd man out

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 21, 2012

Which of the following, somewhat nefarious looking characters, is out of place, and why? The answer is below the pictures, in white: run your cursor of the text and hold, to see it. Harry Furstenburg is the only one of the 6 mathematicians not to have been awarded the Field’s Medal