Abstract Algebra, Swimming and Rummikub

Abstract Algebra, Swimming and Rummikub

My last post was about the life of Évariste Galois and his con­tri­bu­tions to abstract alge­bra. Between that pod­cast and my recent addic­tion to Rum­mikub, this thought process then led me, or dis­tract­ed me, to think­ing about num­ber sets and groups. These math­e­mati­cians have writ­ten about groups, then about swim­ming, and the cur­rent Olympic tri­als for swim­ming, which then con­ve­nient­ly led me back to abstract alge­bra, which was the top­ic of my last post on Evariste Galois. My brain went full circle!

The History of Calculators

The History of Calculators

The year was 1983 and I was tak­ing the Scholas­tic Apti­tude Test, the SAT! It was spring­time in Den­ver, Col­orado, which meant it was snow­ing, as it usu­al­ly does until about June. I was prob­a­bly dressed in sweat­pants and leg warm­ers because, you know, the 80s. I remem­ber look­ing for­ward to the SAT test because I had been study­ing hard

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Climate Scientist and Suffragette Eunice Foote

Climate Scientist and Suffragette Eunice Foote

Foote was nev­er acknowl­edged as a legit­i­mate cli­mate sci­en­tist. That is, until 2011, when His­to­ri­an Ray Soren­son real­ized Foote was the first cli­mate sci­en­tist to con­duct this ground­break­ing study, lead­ing us to under­stand cli­mate change and the steps we must take to save Moth­er Earth.