But while every year brings new faces, one feature of the academic landscape remains ever-present: the huge, imposing blackboards. “I thought the blackboards would be an interesting way to get a peek into their world,” she says. Professor David Damanik, a mathematician at Rice University, who is among those featured, says he uses blackboards to build a narrative. I haven’t seen any other tool or any other device that matches that experience.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest The blackboard of Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago. Wilkinson says there was a furore among mathematicians at one US university when the blackboards were stripped out and replaced with whiteboards.

Source: The Guardian October 12, 2019 12:56 UTC