A discussion on how race and ethnicity interact with the concept of merit in academia, based on sections from the book 'Misconceiving Merit' by Blair-Loy and Cech.
I study the large scale geometry of infinite groups and spaces, focusing on quasi-isometries, which are maps between groups or spaces that preserve the large scale geometry. Since quasi-isometries need not be continuous, distinguishing groups up to quasi-isometries can be challenging. This motivates considering invariants, that is, properties preserved under quasi-isometries.
Songs about other singers...
John Martyn wrote this in 1972 about his friend, the songwriter Nick Drake (1948-1974). The lyrics are here.
