Jared Weinstein is a professor in the department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, where he has worked since 2011. He studies number theory, which is ultimately the study of the whole numbers and their properties, but which links promiscuously with practically every other mathematical subject. A New York native, he received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2007.
Jared Weinstein
Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, Boston University
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October 21st, 2023 at 2:30pm EST
Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts
What do you think of when you think of the number five? Do you think of symbol like 5, a pattern like ⁙, or the fifth item on a list? Today, the concept of number is fixed and eternal, unlinked to anything in the universe. But history shows that mathematics is anything but fixed. In... read more! »
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October 21st, 2023 at 2:30pm EST