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":
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...
