Its a confirmation hearing for one of the president elects most scrutinized cabinet picks. Secretary of state designate Rex Tillerson appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Some lawmakers have expressed concerns about tillersons dealings with russia, jim. We got a lot to get through in the next few hours. Yeah, look cross talk with joe in the market yesterday though everything is up for grabs. I think the tillersons hearing is very much encapsulate the whole rally. But tillerson is at the heart of what i regard business agenda who is secretary of state. And part of the business agenda by the way is to do business with everyone including russia, which by the way before you went to sochi was one of our brightest possibility of partners of energy. So lets say too much is on the line to not cut away. Not the only one going on as well. Elaine chao in front of commerce this morning. Tillerson now apparently in the room shaking hands with members of the committee. Expect to
Wait, he says. Double or nothing i can tell you exactly what your profession is. The mathematician things this is unlikely, so says, sure, go ahead. The shepherd says, you are a world famous mathematicianings incredible, says the math ma tickings how could cue know . Well, says the shepherd, put down my dog and ill tell you. This reputation is not new. In 1914, william d. Lewis, the principle of william penn N High School in philadelphia rote about democratizing education and focused oN High School math mat makes. Misobjection he wrote is largely empire cal. I have seen so many pupils driven out of school by work which could not have any practical advantage to them, and i have watched so many classes, under the caption of algebra, i have come to believe we ought to discriminate as carefully as possible between those pupils who really need the advance mathematics and those who will find other work more profitable. 1914. What mathematics we teach in our schools, especially our high schoo
Can we think of ourselves as a Democratic Political system compared to other democracies and other advanced wealthy democracies in the United States. To that extent can we think of ourselves as democratic and inclusive women have a low level of womens representation in the office and inner judiciary as well. Even within state legislatures where the numbers have stagnated. Thats a serious questions. Can we position ourselves as the nation, as a leader in terms of being democratic and inclusive and womens representation is so loved despite the participatory management and how does the mass politics level. The other thing i would want people to take away from the book is to think again about my minimum for diversity in terms of age, employment, social class and certainly in terms of great tennis this day. We are diverse as a large group of people. There are some strong shape preference is and participation. So that means it that means again that politically women, especially for u. S. Dem
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Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937