A historian's blistering attack.
Author: Ben Orlin
The Three-Body Problem for Dishes
Totally intractable.
A Biography of Archimedes, Written Entirely in Anagrams for “Archimedes”
Not featured: "MASHED RICE."
If Dr. Seuss Knew Calculus
What's not to love?
Truly the Natural Base
In the Homeric epic that is mathematics, eĀ gets a choice epithet. It is "the natural base."
The Strange Sympathies of the Teacher
I am become teacher, destroyer of fun.
The Serious Truth About Silly Mistakes
How deep does a mistake go?
The Carnival of Mathematics
How do pizzas scale? What is Thirdsday? And should mathematics become a cult again?
When Does Insurance Fail?
Answer: when the stakes are too low, and when they're too high.
The Persistent Pedantry of the Mathematical Mind
With apologies.