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Beads at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition
I took a quick look through the artwork that has been accepted into the 2012 JMM Exhibition. There are beads! This exhibition will be held in the exhibit hall in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston during the January 4-7, 2012. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) are the hosting…
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Second International Braiding Conference
A conference on braids from around the world is being held August 19-25 in Manchester, England. Braids 2012 is organized by the Braid Society, an organization that also hosts study days, workshops and visits of interest. They publish a quarterly newsletter, and an annual journal, Strands. Reading the 20-page conference program, I see enough time…
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Through no fault of my own…
Isn’t this a beautiful book cover? This is the (true) diary of a year in the life of Coco Irvine, written by the daughter of a lumber baron. The diary documents her life on fashionable Summit Avenue in St. Paul, MN during the Jazz Age, in 1926-1927. This house now serves as the Minnesota Governor’s…