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Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

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I’m slowly cooking up a big stew of ideas connecting Grothendieck’s Galois theory to the Brauer 3-group, the tenfold way, the foundations of quantum physics and more. The stew is not ready yet, but ...