Hey short waivers, producer Rebecca Ramirez here.

So all this week the team sharing some of our favorite episodes ever.

And I have to say, one of mine is an episode we did with mathematician Rantdeni Edmonds.

And I love it for a lot of reasons.

But the big ones this, for a lot of shortwave episodes we pitch a topic and then find a

guest to talk about it.

And for this one we built the whole episode around our guest.

And Rantdeni?

Well, I have found her when I was scrolling through Twitter, which I do a not insignificant

amount of time because I'm looking for people from marginalized backgrounds doing cool

work in math and the sciences.

And for whatever algorithmic reasons, one day I saw a tweet from Rantdeni introducing

herself.

And so I clicked through to her profile and then her website where I saw that she researched

math.

And I was like, yeah, okay, I know some algebra.

I can definitely stand to learn more algebra.

And so I called her up really to just say hi, discuss her work.

And you know, long story short, we stayed on the phone for two hours, which is not at all

difficult for a call like this.

But Rantdeni told me about this amazing math course she co-developed.

And you know, I don't want to give it all away, but I will just say that I found it personally

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