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Evelyn Lamb
Evelyn Lamb is a mathematician who blogs for Scientific American at
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Wednesday Is E Day, for the Mathematical Constant 2.718. Here’s How to Celebrate.
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Academia Is Hard to Get Into. Everyone—Especially Women and Minorities—Should Still Try.
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This Book Takes a Swipe at the State of Math Education. It Also Gets a Lot of Math Wrong.
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March 29, 2016
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Is Your Entire Life History Really Encoded in the Digits of Pi?
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