The Mathematician Who Will Make You Fall in Love With Numbers | WIRED
The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play, and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them.
Save this story Save this story Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta. Su, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College in California and the outgoing president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), delivered an emotional farewell address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the MAA and the American Mathematical Society in which he challenged the mathematical community to be more inclusive. Quanta Magazine Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine , an editorially independent division of the Simons
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