1+1=2 It hardly seems that a week can go by without seeing another newspaper story or television report about the decline of the American Educational Establishment. Particularly in respect…
0,1,2,3… This episode is all about the forgotten mathematical tool of numbers. Ok, forgotten may be a bit strong, but after a certain point in mathematics numbers seem…
Erdos Paul Erdos was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th Century, the one that other mathematicians measure their distance from, and beyond that one of the most…
The Score There are many similarities between mathematics and music. They are their own vocabulary, their own written language, their own way of describing the world around us, but while…
The Shape of Things Mathematics is rather unfairly thought of as a numbers game, but there really is much more too it and after scouring the world Samuel Hansen found a man…
The Unexpected Sometimes an approach you are sure will work yields results. Maybe the Cambridge sandwich year and a unicycle society will lead to traveling around the world talking about…
The Toolbox The mathematics that we all learn in school is great. No, really, it is. How can anyone get through life without knowing how to add or subtract.…
Chinook You may not think of checkers as an important game intellectually. It certainly has never had the cachet of chess. That did not stop it from becoming the…
