Writing about music, the saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. The implication is that even trying is futile and likely to make the person doing so look absurd. The line has been attributed ...
Teaching writing and mathematics in the same course leaves Ruth Starkman considering the way humanities and mathematics students approach problems. Everything would have been perfectly ordinary that ...
Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. In 2012, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki claimed he had solved the abc conjecture ...