Beverage and logic collide.
Category: Reflections
Your Earliest Mathematical Memory
What do these memories reveal about us - and about math?
Poem on a Pyramid
If each edge is a line, then each face is a stanza...
My Favorite Student-Advisor Moment
How a student found bravery and an advisor showed grace.
Tales of Pythagoras
Six myths. With cartoons.
The State of Being Stuck
Advice from a guy who spent a decade on a single math problem.
The Case for the Brambles
I just finished my twenties. I spent them coasting on dumb and outrageous luck.
The Emergency Black-Box Checklist
When is it okay to execute a mathematical technique without understanding it?
The Three Phases of the Mathematical Life
I met the most famous man in Vietnam. He's a guy who studies algebra.
Why Are Mathematicians So Bad at Arithmetic?
18 x 93 is... hey, look over there!