Posts published in “For Math’s Sake”

While political intrigue may not excite the general readership as much as prison breaks, I found myself equally on the edge of my seat reading about how the US government narrowly avoided a shutdown as I was following the story behind my last column.

For those who followed the escape and eventual capture of the convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante over the past couple of weeks, you were in for a crime documentary playing out in real-time.

I recently watched The Social Dilemma, a documentary that dissects the darker aspects of social media platforms and similar tech mega-services like Google and YouTube.

While I was traveling for the holidays this past weekend, I listened to several episodes of “The Joy of Why?” podcast, which explores new and revolutionary ideas or advances in mathematics and the sciences.

Over the past weekend, extreme weather events across the continental United States abounded, from a blizzard and flooding in and around Los Angeles to record high temperatures for February in Florida and other parts of the Southeast.

This past Tuesday marked another Valentine’s Day, an exciting but also fairly stressful holiday due to the expectations it seems to set on love and relationships.

My girlfriend got me a copy of Matt Parker’s Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World as a Christmas gift.