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If you’ve watched any television recently, you may have noticed the following ad for Halls Refresh. I strongly encourage you to watch it, even if you’ve seen it before, because it’s basically fantastic. A tremendous ad, to be sure. However, if you didn’t watch closely, you may be wondering what such a sensual commercial has . . . → Read More: Math on TV: Halls Refresh Earlier this month, Wired published an article written by Daniel Roth, enticingly titled “Making Geeks Cool Could Reform Education.” It serves as an interesting counterpoint to the commonly used argument that the best way to reform education is to better integrate it with the most current technology, so that going to school feels less like . . . → Read More: Reforming Education through Geek Chic Most of the time I write about films where math takes a central role, but it is just as often the case that mathematics is at work in more of a supporting capacity. There are many examples of this phenomenon, even if we restrict our attention to movies that are fairly recent. To catalog . . . → Read More: Math in the Movies: Hodgepodge Edition Let me begin by saying that, in response to the question Why is 9/09/09 so special?, my response is simple: it’s not. In fact, I would argue that 09/08/09 is much more interesting. This claim has nothing to do with numerology, and everything to do with President Obama’s speech to the youth of America on the . . . → Read More: Make Money Money, Make Money Money Money! (and Learn Math, too) A few months ago, my girlfriend and I were persuaded to subscribe to the LA Times by a very nice man at a nearby Ralph’s store who offered us $20 in groceries for the exchange. “Just try it out,” he insisted, “because you can always cancel and we’ll simply pro-rate the cost based on how . . . → Read More: Comic (but not Comical) Mathematics |
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