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Did you know nomination
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- ... that the Prison Mathematics Project brought a professor from Italy to a prison near Seattle to celebrate Pi Day?
- Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210617031039/https://doc.wa.gov/news/2017/03172017.htm "Havens recently shared his story during MCC's first-ever inmate-led "Pi Day" Celebration. [...] The event included a pi-digit memorization contest, a pi trivia contest, speeches by inmates, and presentations by mathematics professors from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, Lafayette College, and University of Washington."
- ALT1: ... that the Prison Mathematics Project was co-founded by a convicted murderer and a teenager? Source: https://www.pointsoflight.org/awards/teen-volunteer-teams-up-with-prisoner-to-reduce-recidivism-using-math/ "Plano, Texas teenager Walker Blackwell says he grew up with a fondness for mathematics, so when he read a news article online about a convicted murderer named Christopher Havens who had solved an ancient math problem, he was inspired. [...] At the tender age of 15, Walker co-founded Prison Mathematics Project (PMP) with Christopher, a 42-year-old who is currently serving a 25-year sentence at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Washington."
- ALT2: ... that the Prison Mathematics Project had a system to let inmates run computer code via email? Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pioneering-advanced-math-from-behind-bars/ "Most recently, the project has developed a system to let incarcerated mathematicians write computer programs using only the rudimentary “e-mail” system available to people in prison."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jan Ziff
- Comment: I know it's outside the usual WP:SOHA time frame, but we could hold this until Pi Day (March 14).
Moved to mainspace by Apocheir (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 11 past nominations.
Apocheir (talk) 03:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC).