Corinne Low, author of the new book “Having It All,” says she’s not the heteropessimist some women want her to be.

“I do not call my art ‘mathematical art,’” Dr. Roelofs said in a video interview about a week later. “It’s art about mathematics. Every artist has a favorite subject, things you want to talk about.

New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly. There is a good ...