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An Infinite Debt - with Christopher Havens (Prisoner #349034)

Feb 13, 2022

49:50

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Prison Rehab - What Is Justice?

02:44

Leaping Convergence

03:05

Are You a Mathematical Monk?

02:40

Introduction

2min

The Prison Games - What's the Environment Like?

2min

Is That a Part of Your Life?

2min

How Did You Land in the Hole?

3min

The Loge at the End of the Tunnel

2min

How Did I Get Into the Goldilocks?

3min

How Did I Go in the Early Stage When One of My Inmates Was Rejecting in All These Complex Math Books?

2min

How to Get Into a Mathematical Journal

3min

The Beginning of Continuated Fractions

3min

10.

How Did It Feel to Have a Mathematical Pipe Published?

2min

11.

Leaping Convergence

3min

12.

The Prison Math Project

2min

13.

The Prison Mathematics Project

5min

14.

Prison Mathematics Project

2min

15.

What Do Other Prisoners O Into Mathematics and Lik Prison Gods and That?

2min

16.

Are You a Mathematical Monk?

3min

17.

Prison Mathematics Project Executive Director

2min

18.

Prison Rehab - What Is Justice?

3min

19.

A Mathematician's Journey Through Prison

2min

20.

How Do You Want to Be Remembered?

3min

Christopher Havens is serving a 25-year prison sentence for murder - but behind bars he's seeking redemption through advanced mathematics.

He has published an academic paper... and is bringing math to other inmates via The Prison Mathematics Project.

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The Prison Mathematics Project

The Paper: Linear fractional transformations and non-linear leaping convergents of some continued fractions

Article by Marta Cerruti on The Conversation

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