Musings and Ruminations

"I write to find out what I think." Joan Didion. "Qu'est ce que je sais"-What do you know? "a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog know one big thing" Archilochus I studied most of my life for credentials, now I study as a Polymath. This blog is my personal ruminations. I invite you along to explore many things. I won't promise that it will all be interesting, but I promise that the thoughts are honest. I realized, relatively late, that life is for the living. So, it was time to live.

Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Book Review-The Weil Conjecture: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown By Karen Olsson

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This book piqued my interest because it is advertised as a biography of a mathematician and his philosopher sister. Mathematics and philosop...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Book Review-Infinite Powers By Steven Strogatz

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After having been trained in the dark arts of engineering, I considered myself, if not a full-blown expert, at least well versed in calculus...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

Book Review-A Mathematician's Lament By Paul Lockhart

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In the forward to this monograph. Kevin Devlin of Stanford University, a well renowned mathematician, tells the story of how Paul Lockhart, ...
Friday, May 24, 2019

Book Review-Mind and Matter: A life in Math and Football. John Urschel and Louisa Thomas.

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I read the bulk of this book, two hundred pages, in one sitting. It was so engrossing partly because of how well written this book is,...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Book Review-The Lady Tasting Tea By David Salzburg

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This was not a book I had envisioned as being something that I would read, let alone grow to love. My experience with statistics had been ...
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