A tactile dinner party

Food History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Agata Stronciwilk
Keyword(s):  
Dinner Party

Mathematics without Apologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Harris
Keyword(s):  
Number Theory ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Dinner Party ◽  
Mathematical Life ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Guided Tour

What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers, this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on the author's personal experiences as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyám to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, the book reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, the book touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? The book takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

Single Gene Invites Worms to Dinner Party

Science News ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 154 (11) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
John Travis
Keyword(s):  
Single Gene ◽  
Dinner Party

scholarly journals The CanLit Dinner Party: Feasting on Books in the Literature Classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Boyd ◽  
Nicole Hollinson
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literature Classroom ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Dinner Party ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Classroom Assignment

This article examines the “CanLit Dinner Party”, a multimedia exhibition undertaken in an undergraduate seminar on Canadian literature where food was the central topic. Modelled in part after Judy Chicago’s art installation The Dinner Party, this 24-hour exhibition featured interpretive plates inspired by literary food scenes. As a form of experiential learning, the classroom assignment was designed to enhance the students’ critical appreciation for the art of storytelling through food, to think across disciplines, and to synthesize food-related themes studied over the course of the semester. A departure from essay-writing assignments typically found in English literature courses, the “CanLit Dinner Party” underscored food’s role as a cultural idiom by requiring students to engage with its material dimensions.

Introduction: The Veil

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Harris
Keyword(s):  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Dinner Party ◽  
The World ◽  
Technical Material ◽  
The Veil

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. This book is about how it feels to live a mathematician's double life: one life within this framework of professional autonomy, answerable only to their colleagues, and the other life in the world at large. It is written for readers without specialized training, which means it is primarily an account of mathematics as a way of life. Technical material is introduced only when it serves to illustrate a point and, as far as possible, only at the level of dinner-party conversation. The reader is warned at the outset that the author's objective is not to arrive at definitive conclusions but rather to elaborate on what Herbert Mehrtens calls “the usual answer to the question of what mathematics is,” namely, by pointing: “This is how one does mathematics.”

Towards a Speaker Diarization System for the CHiME 2020 Dinner Party Transcription

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Boeddeker ◽  
Tobias Cord-Landwehr ◽  
Jens Heitkaemper ◽  
Cătălin Zorilă ◽  
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
Keyword(s):  
Speaker Diarization ◽  
Dinner Party

Carlos Fuentes, Fighting the Good Fight

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 713-715
Author(s):  
Elena Poniatowska
Keyword(s):  
Carlos Fuentes ◽  
Dinner Party

In 1953 I met a young, active, and very committed Carlos Fuentes. He was twenty-three years old, and I was twenty-one. He died on 15 May 2012, four days before I turned eighty. Celia Chávez, the wife of the poet Jaime García Torres, who was Carlos Fuentes's editor for many years, was giving a dinner party that day at her home in Las Lomas, which Fuentes and his wife were to attend. At two o'clock that afternoon, the news hit like a thunderbolt and darkened our spirits. It wasn't possible that Carlos Fuentes could have died.

Chapter XVII: Further Warnings

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Brontë
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Dinner Party

The next day I accompanied my uncle and aunt to a dinner party at Mr. Wilmot’s. He had two ladies staying with him, his niece Annabella, a fine dashing girl, or rather young woman, of some five and twenty, too great a flirt to...

Chapter III

The Moonstone ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilkie Collins
Keyword(s):  
Dinner Party

The prominent personage among the guests at the dinner-party I found to be Mr Murthwaite. On his appearance in England, after his wanderings, society had been greatly interested in the traveller, as a man who had passed through many dangerous adventures, and who...

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