School
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Poetic
Computation
Mathematics is among the most influential and wide-reaching varieties of knowledge, with applications to virtually all branches of science as well as many if not most artistic and humanistic fields, and yet mathematics is also widely despised, in no small part due to elitism and rote approaches to teaching the subject draining it of all originality and joy. This course is an invitation to learners who may have been traumatized by their own mathematics education to begin to change their relationship to mathematics for the better, through varied activities including study of the cross-cultural histories of the discipline, reflection on our past experiences as students, playing games of strategy, listening to music for harmonic and rhythmic structure, and doing old-fashioned math exercises.
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Nabil Hassein is a technologist, researcher, and educator who previously worked as a high school math teacher, a software developer, and a freelancer, and is currently a PhD candidate in New York University's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, writing a dissertation on Arabic-based programming languages and their associated communities. Nabil is an alum of SFPC's previous full time program, and has previously worked for SFPC as a teaching assistant in the critical theory of technology course and co-organizer of Code Ecologies and Mathematics as a Religious Experience, besides previous iterations teaching Learning to Love Mathematics.
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Margot Armbruster is a writer, editor, educator, and SFPC alum based in Brooklyn. Margot has worked as a researcher, writer, community organizer, and musician at The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the National Humanities Center, Yale University Press, SFPC, and elsewhere, most recently at a Manhattan-based educational media company. Margot's writing appears in The Guardian, USA Today, Belt Magazine, and The Adroit Journal, among other outlets, and focuses on music, math, linguistics, philosophy, disability, and prayer. Margot earned a B.A. in English and Political Theory at Duke University, where they picked figs and took long walks in the campus gardens.
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Applications open until Applications closed on February 5, 2024.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on February 19, 2024. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule weekly or monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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