(Part i) “ (a+bn)/n = x. Therefore, God exists…” is a joke and a joke with multiple layers. From it we can learn about theology, humor, and even literary history, as I found when trying to track it down to teach in my seventh-grade math class. Let’s try to unpeel those layers.
The Securities and Exchange Commission just issued a criminal complaint against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, but the complaint’s main character is…
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You should all send out Christmas cards, preferably by snailmail, not email, and around December 1 of each year. Christmas cards a way to show you are…
I was just reading someone saying that the dollar, being fiat currency, was a Ponzi scheme, just like cryptocurrency. Not so. There is a crucial…
I have started listing the best dozen articles I’ve read in each year. This is an extension of my old idea of sending as part of my Christmas card the…
In the 7th-grade math class I teach, when we discussed closed and open intervals I stumbled a bit when it came to talking about 0.99999... possibly…
My title is an allusion to the excellent book, The Education of Hyman Kaplan, in which the eponymous Mr. Kaplan is taking a night class in…
I’ve been too busy to post lately, even staying up to 3:30 a.m one night to write an amicus brief for the abortion case presently before the Indiana…
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