In partial defense of niceness.
Kind vs. nice.
Is this the silliest scoring system ever?
How the 2020 Olympics depended on a beautifully abominable calculation.
Is the derivative a rhetorical intensifier?
An acceleratingly strange quirk.
On abstraction.
A tale of mathematician vs. poet, with the stakes being civilization itself.
Math for English Majors
A human take on the universal language.
What’s the opposite of mathematics?
Place math in the high-dimensional space of academic subjects, and one point is by far the most distant: history.
Quotable Mathematics
A few of my favorites -- and an open call for yours.
The Puzzle of the Prankster Twins
Logical riddles about a real-life pair of brothers. No hockey knowledge required.
A math teacher’s advice for parents.
A tale of know-how and want-to.
Why did you round 3560 to 3500 instead of 3600?
A 9-year-old calls me out on a sneaky act of rounding.