One of the remarkable things about learning math is that steps forward in understanding require a kind of forgetting. Everything always looks simple in [...]
I had a little progress on my thesis work, recently. Essentially, I was able to prove what form a composition of transformations would take in the most [...]
I’ve been terribly delinquent about posting here recently. I’ve just finished my second week of my summer course, Turtles All the Way Down, which I’ve [...]
I recently posed one of my favorite questions of all time to a student I’m tutoring. He’s something of a natural, and got it remarkably quickly. I [...]
Imagine I took a small handful of pennies and showed them to you clumped together, then spread the same collection out into a wider array; you know, without [...]
I got some requests to clarify what I meant when I said that this was a moment for mathematics in our culture. Let me explain. For the first time ever, math is [...]