One reader’s notes to Paul Lockhart’s thought-provoking “A Mathematician’s Lament” …
Author Archives: Marek
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”:
Alexander Horned Steer
The final image ever captured by our late Mythematical Beasts Dept. editor …
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 1
The first of a finite series of comics adapting Escher’s 1971 essay…
Talkin’ 2×2=5 Blues
Are we allowed to do talkin’ blues algebra proofs? ~
If NOT, maybe this is why — here’s one inspired by Lewis Carroll. ~
Goes a little like this…
Math Flower
“When are we ever gonna see this in the REAL WORLD?”
Patchwork Cantor Angel
Here’s a close up of another such creature …
Cliche Conversion Charts
Bird(s) in bush as a function of bird(s) in hand, and other relationships …
Recursive Load
I’ve been thinking about recursion lately, which of course (if you think about it) usually means I’m thinking about thinking about recursion, which of course…
Pointy Things + Round Things
Circles and Triangles are in many ways about a far apart as shapes can get; and yet… and yet.
Archimedes’ Fatal Work Ethic
You have to respect a mathematician who’s so engrossed in his work that he doesn’t even notice the Romans invading his city…
