That Pi Day a 2nd grader beat out 12th graders in the school-wide recitation contest and left the auditorium with a mouth full of pie. I’d known of the child–a whiz with numbers, his Lower School teachers said. We can’t get him into our class stories the other kids love. After Tim’s big upset win … More The Humanness of Whizardry
I come back and back to a sense of my writing as topology, traveling the Möbius strip to confirm yet again that it is one and not more ways I write. An article is a directed graph, mostly from A to B, its degree limited. We start and have way stops and end, if we … More Ars Poetica Topologica
Yesterday afternoon I found myself sprawled on the couch, eyes half open, the concepts of dot product, cross product, projection and determinant swimming around in my head. It’s worth noting here both that I studied up through a MS in math and that I’m no longer a mathematician professionally. I came upon these concepts idly … More Free Mathing, like Free Writing
