A human take on the universal language.
July 2024 (with Bad Drawings)
Pi Approximation Day, i.e., Pi Day for Grinches, and other highlights.
A roundup of recent books on math
Dispatches from a culture of rearranged fragments.
“Let’s iterate on that.”
Business jargon... and its mathematical dangers.
The Finances of the American Household, in 3 Charts
The cold, hard truth.
Kind vs. nice.
In partial defense of niceness.
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.
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.