“In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.” – Georg Cantor
Link: data tells stories if you present it right For those who doubt the power of graphs to tell a story, I just received this graph from Obama’s group, [...]
This weekend I gave a middle school version of a keynote lecture at the local Mathcounts tournament, as a group of 5th to 8th graders finished slices of pizza [...]
Link: Steve Strogatz explains math for the Times I seem to be falling further behind, as my opinion that the public at large is ready for actual mathematics [...]
Link: How math is written Abstruse Goose, the mathy-est comic there is (even beating out xkcd.com) has this great look at how math proofs are written. I, [...]
I have begun teaching two, not one, but two sections of differential equations this quarter, and immediately, the classes are different from each other. In [...]