Good evening welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and to a very special event. I think we are all delighted that the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted that they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america which is helping out tonight and in particular they loaned us james hansen tonight whom i will introduce in a moment. My name is john ewing. Im the president of math for america and i am a mathematician [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. [laughter] every professional mathematician knows that mathematicians and their subject have a certain reputation. A world famous mathematician is walking in the countryside one day when he comes upon a huge flock of sheep and being a world famous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep that i can tell can tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd knowing that there were an awful lot
Given much is required and i want you to know the gift that you have given to me and that we are not going to take that lightly. Im inspired to do greater work and thank you if. That thank you for that gift. We would like to thank dr. Indira and Nikki Johnson and everyone who created this space for us to have this very important dialogue tonight and thank you for everyone for coming out and being so engaged and i know the great work that you will do moving forward but we want to hear from you as a final thought. My final thought is really simple and im going to ask you to engage me in this and its that one of the things that i hope black girls take from this entire discussion and that we developed a robust agenda around is the idea that they are sacred and loved. Im going to ask everyone to say out loud, as loud as you can, black girls are sacred and loved. Please join me in thanking dr. Morris for spending the evening with us. Thank you so much. Beautiful. [applause] are you around si
Than the home of Rafael Edward cruz. What do we make of cruz sr. s charge that the president should go back to kenya . Should we kiss it off as another crazy texas birther comment of which there are so many . Should we ignore the words that the president of this country is a marxist, that hes a second fidel castro . Is the father the end of this thinking . Does it all stop with him . Or is the surrogate closer to the senator the father closer to the san than either will let us know . Does it matter . Or should we ignore the words of this man whos so close to the countrys loudest, angriest voice of the right. David corn of mother jones magazine and he broke the story today on cruz sr. And back in september of last year, rafael cruz spoke to a Tea Party Group on behalf of his son who was runni ning for senator the time. He made a claim about the president of the United States. Watch him. We have our work cut out for us. We need to send barack obama back to chicago. Id like to send him ba
Should we ignore the words that the president of this country is a marxist, that hes a second fidel castro . Is the father the end of this thinking . Does it all stop with him . Or is the surrogate closer to the senator the father closer to the san than either will let us know . Does it matter . Or should we ignore the words of this man whos so close to the countrys loudest, angriest voice of the right. David corn of mother jones magazine and he broke the story today on cruz sr. And back in september of last year, rafael cruz spoke to a Tea Party Group on behalf of his son who was running for senator at the time. He made a claim about the president of the United States. Watch him. We have our work cut out for us. We need to send barack obama back to chicago. Id like to send him back to kenya, back to indonesia. According to the senior cruz, president obama is a marxist. Lets watch this. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of god. I tell you what.