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Hannah Larson is obsessed with understanding what happens when two or more mathematical objects intersect. Larson, a mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley, and a research fellow ...

How Math Became an Object of the Culture Wars. As was true in the nineties, today’s fights about math are not entirely about what kids actually learn in their classrooms.

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