'I wanted to blaze a trail as a woman in math--once I decided I probably couldn't be a baseball player.'
A pioneer in mathematics, Moon hopes to do interdisciplinary teaching and research incorporating math and the humanities.
Moon has a keen mathematical intellect, which she brings to bear on problems of history, politics, and philosophy seldom touched by rigorous logic. Her essays and teaching breathe new life into the ancient idea that mathematics is the prerequisite for all serious thinking.
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"But now it's gettin' late
And the moon is climbin' high.
I want to celebrate
See it shinin' in your eye." -Neil Young
The full Moon, beautiful as it is, isn't really all that rare!
Blue Moon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for... -Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
"The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'" -Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Sun stood still and the Moon stayed -- and hastened not to go down about a whole day! -Joshua 10:12-13
I knew Moon when I was a graduate student at Cornell. She came with Persi Diaconis when he visited us for a year (before settling in at Stanford). Lost track of her after she got her NSF and headed to Harvard for graduate school. Good to see she is still doing well.
Watch her take down those monolithic units of history, politics, and philosophy! She'll be the Moon unit zapper.
Sorry, I couldn't resist it.