Dilation savings time, and other ideas that can't be any worse than what we have now.
Category: Math
Defining “Cat” Without the Cat
Cat? Easily defined. Integral? Less so.
Books I Loved in 2020
Literary, sci-fi, nonfiction, and unclassifiably inventive.
Three Different Ways of Calling Math “Dry”
Mmm, dryness....
The Uncanny Wisdom of Twitter Polls
When are crowds smarter than individuals? And could it possibly happen in, of all places, Twitter?
Democracy isn’t math. But it isn’t NOT math.
A big-name new book, featuring a few of my scraggly illustrations.
Math Games with Bad Drawings
Your chance to help shape a forthcoming book.
Six Strategic Pen-and-Paper Games (from a Strange and Bottomless Mind)
Pencil, paper, and a little flash of genius.
Kids Say the Darnedest Cubics
A 9-year-old scrawls an innocent problem... and suddenly 3D surfaces are intersecting in 4D space.
$500 Million for Bloomberg Equals… What for You or Me?
Tricky equivalences.