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Deferential Calculus

The most self-effacing of all maths.

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Posted byMarek08 Apr 201408 Apr 2014Posted inmathTags: calculus, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton1 Comment on Deferential Calculus

Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours

You don't always want to encounter infinity in a strange hotel ...

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Posted byMarek06 Apr 201413 Oct 2025Posted incomics, Feature, mathTags: David Hilbert, George Gamow, hotel infinity, infinity, math, number theory, paradox, R. L. Moore2 Comments on Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours

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?)

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Posted byMarek05 Apr 201413 Oct 2025Posted incomics, Feature, math, videoTags: Abraham Lincoln, algebra, Lewis Carroll, math, music, paradox, video, woody guthrie2 Comments on 2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues (Video)

Pythagorean Maxims #16-30

More lifestyle advice from our brilliant & eccentric Ancient Greek mathematician ...

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Posted byMarek03 Apr 2014Posted inmathTags: animals, food, Pythagoras1 Comment on Pythagorean Maxims #16-30

Patterns of Ideas (Hardy)

Quoting G. H. Hardy's 1940 essay, "A Mathematician's Apology"...

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Posted byMarek31 Mar 201412 Mar 2026Posted inmathTags: g. h. hardy, math, pattern, Paul Lockhart4 Comments on Patterns of Ideas (Hardy)

Mathematics is an Art (Lockhart)

One reader's notes to Paul Lockhart's thought-provoking "A Mathematician's Lament" ...

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Posted byMarek30 Mar 201412 Mar 2026Posted inmathTags: art, black holes, math, Paul Lockhart, physicsLeave a comment on Mathematics is an Art (Lockhart)

Pythagorean Maxims #1-15

"Rules of the Good Life," according to one of Ancient Greece's most amazing mathematicians ...

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Posted byMarek29 Mar 201419 Apr 2014Posted inmathTags: ancient greece, PythagorasLeave a comment on Pythagorean Maxims #1-15

100 Pounds of Apples

Here's a delicious puzzle with a counter-intuitive result, based on the "potato paradox":

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Posted byMarek24 Mar 201414 Nov 2017Posted inmathTags: apples, math, paradox, percent, puzzle, water, weightLeave a comment on 100 Pounds of Apples

Alexander Horned Steer

The final image ever captured by our late Mythematical Beasts Dept. editor ...

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Posted byMarek21 Mar 201411 Feb 2021Posted inmathTags: Alexander Horned Sphere, math, torusLeave a comment on Alexander Horned Steer

Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 1

The first of a finite series of comics adapting Escher's 1971 essay...

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Posted byMarek17 Mar 201430 Mar 2023Posted incomics, mathTags: Escher, infinity, math, space, time2 Comments on Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 1

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...

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Posted byMarek16 Mar 201413 Oct 2025Posted incomics, mathTags: Abraham Lincoln, algebra, division, Lewis Carroll, math, multiplication, music, transitive relationLeave a comment on Talkin’ 2×2=5 Blues

Math Flower

"When are we ever gonna see this in the REAL WORLD?"

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Posted byMarek15 Mar 201417 Mar 2014Posted inmathTags: circle, equilateral, flower, triangle, tulipLeave a comment on Math Flower

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