Over the last three years, I have committed over 700 days working on a project about Alexandria, Egypt, the history of Alexandria, the works of the intellectuals, and of course Hypatia, who was an absolute academic STEM hero in every possible way. Working through this project, I found myself immersed in this idea about what it would be like to completely
I love researching Late Antiquity history. If you like history and historical science as much as I do, I am sure you share the same kind of thrill that I get when I discover an individual or individuals who hold the key to a trove of fascinating history. For years, I have been visiting https://www.Livius.org. It is a website of
Sometimes winning $1,000,000 is simple. You can scratch a ticket, or beat the statistical odds of a lottery drawing, or earn a spot on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Easy, right?! A not so easy way to win $1,000,000 is to solve one of the six remaining Millennium Problems. It used to be seven problems until Mathematician Grigori Perelman
My love for math began when I was about seven. From elementary school through high school, on some mornings I would find a math puzzle next to my cereal bowl. My dad, before he would go to work, would write down a puzzle and set it next to my breakfast setting. When I worked with him at Sundstrand Aviation after
It is in history that we understand who we are as a collective and who we are as individuals, it is whom we seek to be and whom we become. What value do we place on history? I could not think of a better time to honor the importance of historical preservation than in July, the month that honors Julius