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
Given much is required and i want you to know the gift that you have given to me and that we are not going to take that lightly. Im inspired to do greater work and thank you if. That thank you for that gift. We would like to thank dr. Indira and Nikki Johnson and everyone who created this space for us to have this very important dialogue tonight and thank you for everyone for coming out and being so engaged and i know the great work that you will do moving forward but we want to hear from you as a final thought. My final thought is really simple and im going to ask you to engage me in this and its that one of the things that i hope black girls take from this entire discussion and that we developed a robust agenda around is the idea that they are sacred and loved. Im going to ask everyone to say out loud, as loud as you can, black girls are sacred and loved. Please join me in thanking dr. Morris for spending the evening with us. Thank you so much. Beautiful. [applause] are you around si
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