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Author Archives: Marek
Drawing QB 1: What We Need
A glance at the comics page in the student newspaper …
Hotel Infinity
“Up ahead in the distance, / I saw a shimmering light…”:
From One Math to Another
Gosh it’s nice to get home to NH.
Deferential Calculus
The most self-effacing of all maths.
Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours
You don’t always want to encounter infinity in a strange hotel …
2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues (Video)
Finally, a video version of our earlier all-comics proof … But could it be true? (Can you spot the error?)
Pythagorean Maxims #16-30
More lifestyle advice from our brilliant & eccentric Ancient Greek mathematician …
Patterns of Ideas (Hardy)
Quoting G. H. Hardy’s 1940 essay, “A Mathematician’s Apology”…
Mathematics is an Art (Lockhart)
One reader’s notes to Paul Lockhart’s thought-provoking “A Mathematician’s Lament” …
Pythagorean Maxims #1-15
“Rules of the Good Life,” according to one of Ancient Greece’s most amazing mathematicians …
100 Pounds of Apples
Here’s a delicious puzzle with a counter-intuitive result, based on the “potato paradox”: