trying to be a mile wide AND a mile deep
Far from carefully vetted for accuracy. We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyze them. William James A judicious man looks on statistics not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him. Thomas Carlyle After all, facts are facts, and although we may […]
Mathematical recreation is to be distinguished from recreational mathematics. I am just not entirely certain how. Astonishingly, the links below – labeled “unchecked since 2004” – all still work as of this writing. I had them in a section headed “math entertainment.” The Mathematical Quotation Server is perhaps not “entertainment” per se, and is definitely […]