Monthly Archives: June 2012

Murray Bourne at ‘squareCircleZ’ has a great post on modeling fish stocks as an interesting applied example for a math class. In addition to helping students find interest in understanding the mathematics, this can also help people to really see … Continue reading →

I have been trying to read some of John Baez’s[1] series on “Information Geometry” (here at Part 11), part of which has now also been summarized by Sean Carroll.[2]

Jim Holt, in the NYTimes (via 3Qdaily) says “Physicists, Stop the Churlishness“. Oh come on! This ‘churlishness’ is all just part of the ‘game’ that has been going on *between* philosophers ever since the beginning. And philosophers themselves have never … Continue reading →

I was surprised to see media claims that Bill Clinton was advocating an extension of the Bush tax cuts, but Robert Reich (who was there) explains that the comment was not about what should happen but what might happen as … Continue reading →

Here are some favourite lines from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man. Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely … Continue reading →

A current | LinkedIn discussion asks “Did man invent Maths or was it there all along waiting to be discovered?”. So I thought I’d take the return of that old question as a prompt to review and express some thoughts … Continue reading →