Living Proof: the Isaac Newton Institute podcast

#37 Teaching maths in Africa: an interview with Professor Franca Hoffmann

Cambridge University

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Professor Hoffmann has spent much of the past decade working with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, its Quantum Leap Africa initiative, and a host of other groups and NGOs across the African continent, all focused on the support and pursuit of higher mathematics. And yet, in her own words, she’s still “very junior” at her home institution herself. How is this possible?