Are my reasons romantic or pedestrian?
Author: Ben Orlin
Ray Bradbury is My Anti-Vonnegut.
Vonnegut growls. I want somebody who sings.
When Not Memorizing Gets in the Way of Learning
Monday, we memorize. That way, we’ll know. Tuesday through Friday, we think and we grow.
The Self-Pity Paradox
There you go again! I say that no one believes me, and scarcely a moment passes before you’re disbelieving me again.
Playing to Lose (or, What Mucking Around with Sports Rulebooks Has to Do with Math)
What if all athletes everywhere suddenly caught losing fever, and began pursuing their own defeat? How would games change if we all played to lose?
To the Class of 2014
The people in your life will continue to shape you, just as you shaped each other, just as you shaped me, just as I perhaps, in some small way, helped to shape you (if only to instill a fearful awe of complex numbers).
Mailbag: STEM Stereotypes, Intellectual Inadequacy, and the Crocodile Tears of the Math Student
If you’re worried that labeling yourself as a math major conjures up a specific, inflexible image in people’s minds, then the best thing you can do is gently push back against their stereotypes.
I think the SAT’s scoring system is gibberish.
If even hyper-selective schools like Yale don’t care about small differences in SAT scores, why should anyone?
Star Trek with Bad Drawings (by me, age 6)
I found these drawings in the basement of my childhood home. I was 6, already a Star Trek fan and a terrible drawer.
Descartes’ PB&J (or, the Clever Idea at the Heart of High School Math)
Virtually our entire high school math curriculum now consists of playing out the consequences of Descartes’ innovation.
Math with Bad Drawings 