The fate of the US Department of Education (ED), first formed in 1979 and receiving on-and-off criticism in presidential campaigns since then, is now perhaps at its most uncertain stage after the re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
Posts published by “Charles Beall”
This article will likely be the last of several recent columns I’ve written on the 2024 elections. It’s also the hardest to write.
I recently read a brief interview with Vicki Abeles, the director of the documentary Counted Out, to be released in 2025.
With last week’s announcements of the 2024 Nobel Prize winners, I wanted to dedicate an article to the major accolades that honor achievements and contributions in mathematics.
If there were any skeptical readers of my last column thinking to themselves “how on Earth are beavers related to fundamental mathematics,” I respond to them with: doubters be dammed!
In 1971, as Stevens officially admitted its first women undergraduates, the United States ratified the 26th constitutional amendment, which set the national minimum voting age at 18.
As the title suggests, this article will be incredibly light on actual mathematics (which is probably music to many an ear) since, also as the title suggests, it has been an incredibly busy start to the semester for me.
To ring in the new school year, I have frequently listened to perhaps the most unexciting artist on Spotify: White Noise Radiance.
As I wrap up the second year of the For Math’s Sake column, I want to get at some broad questions about mathematics I’ve been mulling over and share some thoughts that will hopefully lay the groundwork for more in-depth articles in the coming school year.
The title of this article is a question I usually get asked. Admittedly, it’s a hard question to answer briefly since a sentence like, “I take graduate-level courses to gain a general background in the subject and then conduct original research in mathematics in order to defend a thesis,” leads to many follow-up questions.