The Great Ganesha

And then there were six… One of my students just dropped the class. A girl majoring in Dance, she somehow found herself in my class. Even though it’s a class for non-majors, the math is pretty hard for someone who cannot think quantitatively (think: most American non-math-major undergraduates). So I had my first casualty of [...]

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A recent article in the BBC brought to light something interesting. For about 700-800 years, starting in the first or second century BC, the Indians were sending pepper and other spices to the Romans from Muziris, a seaport located in Kerala. The spices would make their way to Egypt, from where they would then be [...]

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