Siris

  I Am Not the Sort of Man Who Can Be Known, O Beautiful One I am not the sort of man who can be known, O beautiful one; you can study a tho...

 Today is the feast of St. Juan de Avila, Doctor of the Church. An always timely point from one of his letters: The Israelites who journeyed...

 resemblance, contiguity, and causation as elements of design (cp. Morehead) It is almost always the worst people who spend time dwelling in...

 I was amused to see this video of two mathematicians trying for an hour to figure out from scratch how to play Lewis Carroll's Game of ...

 "I Know the Stars" by Sara Teasdale  I know the stars by their names,  Aldebaran, Altair,  And I know the path they take  Up heav...

I am currently mired in the first stages of end-of-term grading, but one thing that I have been thinking about recently is what might be cal...

 The Mathematician in Love by William Rankine  I. A mathematician fell madly in love With a lady, young, handsome, and charming: By angles ...