The Mother of all Equations: Nil Battey Sannata and Shakuntala Devi with Amanda Mullins
Episode 113, Mar 14, 2021, 05:51 AM
Happy Pi Day Lovers! To celebrate we’ve invited our friend Amanda Mullins on to discuss two films about women and math.
Show Notes:
- Welcome Amanda Mullins!
- Erin may or may not have made cherry pie today
- Studying maths
- Erin claims to like math
- Math stereotypes in movies
- Number sense
- The Futurama Theorem
- Gender stereotypes of mathematicians in pop culture
- Nil Battey Sannata
- Remakes: Amma Kanakku and Udaharanam Sujatha
- “Hard work sucks and I hate doing it”
- Monte Carlo simulations
- Shakuntala Devi, the film
- Shakuntala Devi, the person
- Numberwang
- Discrete math
- Would you hire someone to perform math?
- Bad Bollywood wigs syndrome
- Her book on homosexuality
NEXT TIME: PCJ’s memoir
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