Life's constraints may be simple, but life's objectives are irreducibly complex.
Category: Reflections
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.
Green + Green = Pink
Beverage and logic collide.
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...