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Working with constraints
There is a theory that one can have too much freedom, at least in art. With constraints the imagination is forced to work harder, and might achieve an elegance and beauty unobtainable when a simple...
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The search for the truth can never stop.
This is a first obituary (of a sort) for these writings. I do not think I would have predicted that this would be a playwright, not a mathematician. This might seem a little off topic, although I...
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Unscheduled Post: No Science without Fancy
A great post from Scott Aaronson on Shtetl-Optimized talking about rational literature, with the wonderful point that in many works that do mention science: the juvenile humor at the core of how...
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My first week on twitter from socialcollider.net It took me a lot less time to get into twitter (@gelada) than to get a blog. However in general it is said that cycles of social media are getting...
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In memorium: Foyle’s Mathematics room.
For years the mathematics books at Foyles bookshop in London had their own room. It was a strange place, to the uninitiated inexplicably yellow. It had its own quirks rules and legends. There were...
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