113: The Mother of all Equations: Nil Battey Sannata and Shakuntala Devi with Amanda Mullins

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Happy Pi Day Lovers! To celebrate we’ve invited our friend Amanda Mullins on to discuss two films about women and math. Show Notes: Welcome Amanda Mullins! Erin may or may not have made cherry pie today Studying maths Erin claims to like math Math stereotypes in movies Number sense The Futurama Theorem Gender stereotypes of mathematicians in pop culture (INTERVAL (“Pass Nahi Toh Fail Nahi” from Shakuntala Devi) Nil Battey Sannata Remakes: Amma Kanakku and Udaharanam Sujatha “Hard work sucks and I hate doing it” Monte Carlo simulations Shakuntala Devi, the film Shakuntala Devi, the person Numberwang Discrete math Would you hire someone to perform math? Bad Bollywood wigs syndrome Her book on homosexuality NEXT TIME: PCJ’s memoir Bollywood is For Lovers is a member of the Alberta Podcast Network Listen to What’s the Tsismis? Check out ATB’s The Future Of Find us on Apple Podcasts! and Stitcher! and audioBoom! and iHeartRadio! and Spotify! and Google Podcasts! Thank you to Becca Dalke for the artwork! Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! #ShakuntalaDevi, #VidyaBalan, #AnuMenon, #SanyaMalhotra, #AmitSadh, #JisshuSengupta, #PrakashDelawadi, #NilBatteySannata, #AshwinyIyerTiwari, #SwaraBhasker, #RatnaPathakShah, #PankajTripathi, #Bollywood, #Math, #PiDay, #WomeninSTEM, #Womeninmath, #HindiCinema

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