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In early 19th century Bengal, to find yourself pregnant was to see stretching before you nine of the most agonizing months of your existence. Considered Unclean by social practice, you were removed to the most isolated room within the house (the sutikagriha) if you were lucky, or to a dismal outbuilding if you weren’t, where all openings to the outside world were sealed shut, and a fire was set to burning so that the room was permanently excruciatingly hot, dark, and filled w

In secondary school, matrices don’t get anything near a fair shake. In case it has been a while, matrices were those rectangular grids of numbers that look something like this: In most secondary schools, you learn in your sophomore year the rules for adding them together, multiplying them, and for using them to represent systems of equations (the above matrix, for example, could represent the system 5x + 2y = 3, 1x + 4y = -2), and that is basically it. Throughout all of cal