If We Talked About Other Subjects the Way We Talk About Math

Some people are just wired for Spanish.

The Differentiation: A Survivor’s Tale

The constant functions perished first.

What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession?

(Small print: Does not apply to Nate Silver.)

13 Trig Functions You Need to Memorize Right Now

Co-cocoasine and cocoa-cosine are totally different. Naturally.

Status Update from a Frustrated Mathematician

I have slept only scattered hours, eaten only bits of eraser and pencil shavings.

US vs. UK: Mathematical Terminology

I’ve encountered some surprising disparities, each of which prompts the obvious question: Which way is better, the British or the American?

The Religions of Academia

Computer Science: God threw something together under a 7-day deadline. He's still debugging.

Don’t Let a Mathematician Write Your Political Slogans

Change We Can Believe In? Or Delta-Y We Can Verify Empirically?

The Skeptic’s Horoscope

ARIES - Today, your lucky numbers are statistically indistinguishable from your unlucky ones. Sorry about that.

If Trigonometric Functions Wrote Letters to Each Other

Sorry Mom, I can't go to school today. I'm having a trig identity crisis.