Place math in the high-dimensional space of academic subjects, and one point is by far the most distant: history.
What’s the opposite of mathematics?
Category: Reflections
A Brief Collection of Math Metaphors in Literature
Are these teaching us about people, or about math? (Both.)
Err, and err, and err again; but less, and less, and less.
Is moral progress like a mathematical limit?
Optimizing your life without losing your soul.
Life's constraints may be simple, but life's objectives are irreducibly complex.
On parents, children, and a newborn book of mathematical games.
My third book comes out today.
I can’t multiply 2573 by 389.
Neither can you, I bet.
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems
Pull up a chair, and set aside 200 million years.
Books I Loved in 2021 (first half)
Fifteen very good books.
“Simplifying” is subjective. Also, crucial.
The ancient battle of "weird" vs. "weird, but not wrong."
Advice for snobs.
Snobbery without the snobbery.