Ghulf Genes

At any given time, that which is highly respectable  is already dead, work on the advancing fronts of a field is mixed (thus the soaring ob...

When it comes to higher math, it’s a good policy to stay cheerful—and to resist the waves and waves of frustration that well up. Take one o...

My subject is the claim I’ve often seen that mathematics is the source of science and thus the father of modern technologies. A list then u...

1975 The Tao of Physics 1979 The Dance of the Wu Li Masters 1984 The Looking Glass Universe 1984 In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat 1...

Negative numbers deserve respect such as they rarely ever get. In Math they have been dubbed absurd, an adjective that really hurt When the ...

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), known to most by means of Edward FitzGerald’s translation (using a loose meaning for that word) of the Rubaiyyat ,...

The book under consideration is Morris Kline’s Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty . Wonderful book—and a nice companion to one I’d recently ...

French mathematician Pierre de Fermat was born August 17, 1601. Google dedicates its search logo to the event today, the reason why I know. ...