113: The Mother of all Equations: Nil Battey Sannata and Shakuntala Devi with Amanda Mullins

Happy Pi Day Lovers! To celebrate we’ve invited our friend Amanda Mullins on to discuss two films about women and math.

Show Notes:

Welcome Amanda Mullins!
Erin may or may not have made cherry pie today
Studying maths
Erin claims to like math
Math stereotypes in movies
Number sense
The Futurama Theorem
Gender stereotypes of mathematicians in pop culture

(INTERVAL (“Pass Nahi Toh Fail Nahi” from Shakuntala Devi)

Nil Battey Sannata
Remakes: Amma Kanakku and Udaharanam Sujatha

“Hard work sucks and I hate doing it”
Monte Carlo simulations

Shakuntala Devi, the film

Shakuntala Devi, the person
Numberwang
Discrete math
Would you hire someone to perform math?
Bad Bollywood wigs syndrome
Her book on homosexuality

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