Isn’t it ever so satisfying when your hard-earned taxes are spent on something useful and constructive, such as the report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, which was charged with answering the question of why American students are falling behind the rest of the world in mathematical preparation. Of course, enormous piles of research has [...]
Is mathematics an emergent property of sociality? I posed this intriguing question to a mathematician colleague, who is also an evolutionary biologist, and he said yes. The question came up because I have argued that rules are actually a social construct; a solitary species needs few or no rules governing its interactions with other individuals [...]
My sampler quilt demonstrates all the regular and semiregular Archimedean tilings of polygons in a Euclidean plane.
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