Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers narrates progress on the Twin Prime Conjecture made from the breakthrough work of Dr. Yitang Zhang in May 2013 (proving the existence of infinitely many pairs of twin primes that are at most 70 million apart) through the incremental “closing of the gap” achieved through the…
The third meeting of the Fall 2025 AWM Book Club was on Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott. Originally published in 1884 as a satire on the gender and social hierarchies of Victorian-era society, Flatland gained popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, when the sci-fi genre was on the rise, and…
For the second meeting of the Fall 2025 AWM Book Club, we read Proof, by David Auburn, a short play about mathematics and madness. Proof won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. It premiered on Broadway in 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre and ran until 2003. In…
For our first AWM Book Club meeting of Fall 2025, we read the chapter “Mathematical Institutions and the ‘In’ of the Association for Women in Mathematics” from AWM’s 50th anniversary collection Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics: Reminiscences, History, and Visions for the Future of AWM, the full text of which is available through Springer.…