This past September, a very strange thing happened. The worlds of mathematics and comics combined to give birth to the graphic novel Logicomix, written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou, and illustrated by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna. The book gives a slightly fictionalized account of Bertrand Russell‘s life, and uses this storyline . . . → Read More: Math in Books: Logicomix
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I admire the food blog Serious Eats because, as we’ve seen before, it’s not afraid to get a little mathematical. This month they have upped the ante with a post on the delicious object now known as the Mobius strip bagel. Named for the classical geometric object of the same name, the Mobius strip bagel (and . . . → Read More: Math Gets Around: Breakfast Recently I received an email imploring me to check out all of the “unique designs” available at a site called nerdytshirt.com. I’m not sure why I was the recipient of such an email – they could have found me through my university affiliations, or through this blog, but I’m not sure which. If you’ve been reading . . . → Read More: More on Nerdy T-Shirts Apologies for my absence – academic life has recently forced me to put the blog on hold. Things have cleared up now though, and I have a backlog of things to discuss, so let’s get right to it. Last month, Jennie Yabroff wrote an article for Newsweek discussing the new film Precious. I haven’t seen . . . → Read More: A Lack of Math in the Movies |
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