Joel David HamkinsInterview
Mathematician and philosopher (The City University of New York)
Adapted from Joel David Hamkins's interview on Uses This, published 24 July 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I work in many locations - home, office, libraries, but in truth, mainly in cafes --- and so it is convenient to use a Sony Vaio VPC Z2 ultrathin laptop for all my computer work, augmented with a docking station and a second monitor at my office.
I print, scan and copy at home with a Brother DCP 7060D multifunction laser printer.
I am constantly on my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smart phone.
For music, I use a Grace digital amplifier, piping via Bluetooth from my computer or phone to the built-in speakers in my apartment.
I make espresso with my Vev Vigano Kontessa stovetop espresso maker, and mix dry gin martinis using a cocktail shaker that I found in a thrift shop, but which looks exactly like this 3D model from TurboSquid.
At the chalkboard, I use only Hagoromo faru ta'chi ("Full-Touch") chalk, for which it has been claimed that it is impossible to make a mathematical mistake when writing with this chalk.
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I have ideas about Math for Kids, and my recent post on Math for seven-year-olds made it to the top of Hacker News and Digg.com.