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can we think of ourselves as a democratic political system compared to other democracies and other advanced wealthy democracies in the united states. to that extent can we think of ourselves as democratic and inclusive women have a low level of women s representation in the office and inner judiciary as well. even within state legislatures where the numbers have stagnated. that s a serious questions. can we position ourselves as the nation, as a leader in terms of being democratic and inclusive and women s representation is so loved despite the participatory management and how does the mass politics level. the other thing i would want people to take away from the book is to think again about my minimum for diversity in terms of age, employment, social class and certainly in terms of great tennis this day. we are diverse as a large group of people. there are some strong shape preference is and participation. so that means it that means again that politically women, espec ....
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. i m 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 the ....
myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. that was my childhood experience. host: who happened to be african-american guest: exactly. and i never saw that. so then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. and my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, it s for important. and she turned me into a writer. she forced know keep writing over and over again. because then i moved to new york pause that s what you re told to do, and i got another degree. fine arts in writing for children at the new school. and really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, there s a lot of [inaudible] and there s a lot of rewriting x there s a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how you re perceived. so then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging ....
good evening. welcome to the national museum of mathematics and a very special event. i think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the mathematical association of america helping out tonight. in particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. my name is john ewing, i am president of math america. i am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. a world-famous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. being a world-famous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. $100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. the shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. the mathematician looks around ....