113: The Mother of all Equations: Nil Battey Sannata and Shakuntala Devi with Amanda Mullins

<div>Happy Pi Day Lovers! To celebrate we’ve invited our friend Amanda Mullins on to discuss two films about women and math.<br> <br> </div> <div>Show Notes:<br> <br> </div> <ul> <li>Welcome <a href="https://href.li/?https://twitter.com/NoAmandaStahp">Amanda Mullins</a>!</li> <li>Erin may or may not have made <a href="https://href.li/?https://youtu.be/OjyZKfdwlng">cherry pie</a> today</li> <li>Studying maths</li> <li>Erin <em>claims</em> to like math</li> <li><a href="https://href.li/?http://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/">Math stereotypes in movies</a></li> <li><a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scholastic.com%2Fparents%2Fschool-success%2Flearning-toolkit-blog%2Fdemystifying-math-what-number-sense.html&amp;t=YjU0ZmEwMjIzNjM1NDk0ZGNjYmJjMzIxNzBmYTU2NTJmM2FjNjVlYyxlYjcwZjVkY2MwOThlNWU4YmQzMzQyODlmNTQ3OWY5OTBmNmI5NTgx&amp;ts=1615700421">Number sense</a></li> <li><a href="https://href.li/?https://www.mathteacherscircle.org/wp-content/themes/mtc/assets/GroodFuturamaTheorem.pdf">The Futurama Theorem</a></li> <li>Gender stereotypes of mathematicians in pop culture</li> </ul> <div> <br> (INTERVAL (“<a href="https://href.li/?https://youtu.be/4vvO9JE9djU">Pass Nahi Toh Fail Nahi</a>” from <em>Shakuntala Devi</em>)<br> <br> </div> <ul> <li><a href="https://href.li/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nil_Battey_Sannata"><em>Nil Battey Sannata</em></a></li> <li>Remakes: <a href="https://href.li/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amma_Kanakku"><em>Amma Kanakku</em></a><em> </em>and <a href="https://href.li/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaharanam_Sujatha"><em>Udaharanam Sujatha</em></a> </li> <li>“Hard work sucks and I hate doing it”</li> <li><a href="https://href.li/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method">Monte Carlo simulations</a></li> <li> <a href="https://href.li/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi_(film)">Shakuntala Devi</a>, the film</li> <li> <a href="https://href.li/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi">Shakuntala Devi</a>, the person</li> <li><a href="htt