What a Mathematical Pirate Says

Pirate jokes (and a whole lot of love).

Fermat’s Last Paraphrase

Mathematicians: the world's weirdest translators.

Your Earliest Mathematical Memory

What do these memories reveal about us - and about math?

A City on a Polar Grid (and 15 other math cartoons)

So many math jokes, they're dense in the space of jokes.

Errors No More Egregious Than Confusing “Million” and “Billion”

Hey, I get it. “Million” and “billion” sound basically the same. When written, they differ by a single letter. Both mean “more dollars than I have at the moment.” On a purely sensory level, swapping them feels like confusing “affect”/“effect” or “allusion”/“illusion,” or Natalie Portman/Keira Knightley. An honest mistake. And yet . . . There … Continue reading Errors No More Egregious Than Confusing “Million” and “Billion” →

The Bubble Under the Mathematical Rug

We can't eliminate math's complications. But we can nudge them around.

Poem on a Pyramid

If each edge is a line, then each face is a stanza...