{"id":1406,"date":"2017-11-07T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2017-11-07T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:20:44","slug":"sonia-math-day-math-and-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/2017\/11\/07\/sonia-math-day-math-and-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Math Day: Math and Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the <a title=\"University of Illinois Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)\" href=\"https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/academics\/graduate-program\/women-mathematics\">University of Illinois Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)<\/a> ninth <a title=\"Sonia Math Day\" href=\"https:\/\/math.illinois.edu\/sonia-math-day\">Sonia Math Day<\/a> for 8th &#8211; 12th grade girls at Illinois! This fun filled day will be packed with activities, lunch, shirts, and mathematical prizes for participants. This fall we will explore math and magic.<\/p>\n<p>The registration deadline was Friday, October 20.<\/p>\n<h2>Books on Display<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Complexities : women in mathematics \/ edited by Bettye Anne Case, Anne M. Leggett. (Math 510.820973 C738)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s all done with numbers : astounding and confounding feats of mathematical magic \/ Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames ; illustrated by Carter Jones. (SSHEL Oak Street [Choose pick-up: SSHEL] S.793.74 W977I)<\/li>\n<li>Magic of mathematics : discovering the spell of mathematics \/ Theoni Pappas. (Oak Street Library [request online] )<\/li>\n<li>Magical mathematics : the mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks \/ Persi Diaconis, Ron Graham ; with a foreword by Martin Gardner. (Undergrad GV1549 .D53 2012)<\/li>\n<li>Magical maze : seeing the world through mathematical eyes \/ Ian Stewart. (Math 510 St4m)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical card magic : fifty-two new effects \/ Colm Mulcahy. (Math 519.3 M896m)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical magic show : more puzzles, games, diversions, illusions &amp; other mathematical sleight-of-mind from Scientific American \/ Martin Gardner ; with repartee from readers ; afterthoughts from the author. (Math 793.74 G18mat 1978)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematical mysteries : the beauty and magic of numbers \/ Calvin C. Clawson. (Math 512.7 C578M)<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics, its magic and mastery [by] Aaron Bakst. (Math 793.74 B17M)<\/li>\n<li>Modern women; an English rendering of Laura Marholm Hansson&#8217;s &#8216;Das buch der frauen&#8217; by Hermione Ramsden. (Main Stacks 920.7 H199BER)<\/li>\n<li>Sonia Kovalevsky; biography and autobiography. I. Memoir by A.C. Leffler (Edgren) duchessa di Cajanello. II. Reminiscences of childhood written by herself. Translated into English by Louise von Cossel. (Oak Street Library [request online] B.K88 cEc)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}