What do these memories reveal about us - and about math?
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Your Earliest Mathematical Memory
A City on a Polar Grid (and 15 other math cartoons)
So many math jokes, they're dense in the space of jokes.
Errors No More Egregious Than Confusing “Million” and “Billion”
Hey, I get it. “Million” and “billion” sound basically the same. When written, they differ by a single letter. Both mean “more dollars than I have at the moment.” On a purely sensory level, swapping them feels like confusing “affect”/“effect” or “allusion”/“illusion,” or Natalie Portman/Keira Knightley. An honest mistake. And yet . . . There … Continue reading Errors No More Egregious Than Confusing “Million” and “Billion”
The Bubble Under the Mathematical Rug
We can't eliminate math's complications. But we can nudge them around.
Poem on a Pyramid
If each edge is a line, then each face is a stanza...
The Teacher Who Only Says Gimme
My favorite kind of question is a demand - and an invitation.
The Forgotten Dream of the Fields Medal
A Nobel for math? Fields wanted nothing of the sort.
