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Terry Tao’s @teorth.bsky.social ‘s public lecture “Mathematics In the Age of AI” #ICM2026 is now available to watch online: www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/08/13/f...
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![CHAPTER 1
Algebra and Civil Rights?
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In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become a part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to learn to think in radical terms. I use the term radical in its original meaning-getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system. That is easier said than done. But one of the things that has to be faced is, in the process of wanting to change that system, how much have we got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.... I am saying as you must say, too, that in order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
–Ella Baker
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The sit-ins woke me up.
Until then, my Black life was conflicted. I was a twenty-six-year-old teacher at Horace Mann, an elite private school in the Bronx, moving back and forth between the sharply contrasting worlds of Hamilton College, Harvard University, Horace Mann, and Harlem.
[the first page of Radical Equations]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ulooyxsddue5iug4wt6evexi/bafkreie5xq4fchvuu74oylk7bpyxpzotaifofitubxxtqzgs5r62ylsrku)
