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In a parallel life I teach college mathematics. I
thought ne'er the twain would meet. I was wrong.
In an MAA (Mathematical Association of America) column
titled "Math Becomes Way Cool" Keith Devlin writes of
mathematics in the movies: "In a little known 1995
film called Antonia's Line, a chronicle of five
generations of women, we see Antonia's granddaughter
Theresa grow from being a child prodigy to become a
professional mathematician, who, with unfortunate
stereotypical coldness, prefers to lecture on
cohomology and read research papers on differential
geometry rather than nurse her baby. (All the
real-life mathematician mothers I know would do both.)"
I agree.
Anne Cook, MS (in mathematics), LLLL
Sturgis, MI
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