Interesting Links for 03-02-2017

[nwhyte]

Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history
...an Iranian living in the United States.
(tags: sexandgenderandsexuality uspolitics mathematics )

America’s president: An insurgent in the White House
@economist same as ever.
(tags: uspolitics )

Comments

[rosefox]

That Fields Medal news is from 2014. You're the second person I've seen posting it; I suppose it's making the rounds again as a pro-immigrant thing.

[mcbadger]

I think Nicholas may have seen it via my Facebook feed (certainly he liked it there); that was a share of a post with the text "A timely reminder that the first female winner of arguably the most intellectually prestigious prize of them all is an Iranian living in the US." So, yes.