Tag Archives: parenting

Another Pen Story of Tough Love

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Manoj

Another pen, another story about the tightrope act called parenting. Continue reading →

Posted in Malayalam, Parenting, Work and Life | Tagged children, Kerala, life, Malayalam, parenting | Comments

Home No More

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Manoj

On the loss of a second parent, and its implications. Continue reading →

Posted in Life and Death, Philosophy, Work and Life | Tagged Albert Camus, deaths and births, parenting | Comments

The last post in this series of Love of Math looks at how math gets used in physics and finance. Or, more precisely, how one has to be careful about the assumptions in modeling stuff, and the pitfalls of (the lack of) error propagation.

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Posted in Columns, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine | Tagged children, Columns, parenting, quantitative finance, wilmott | Comments

Math and Patterns

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Manoj

Most kids love patterns. Math is just patterns. So is life. Math, therefore, is merely a formal way of describing life, or at least the patterns we encounter in life. So, where is the difficulty in loving maths? Here is the second post in this series.

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Posted in Columns, Quantitative Finance, The Wilmott Magazine, Topical | Tagged children, Columns, parenting, quantitative finance, wilmott | Comments

Love of Math

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Manoj

This is another short series of posts on love of math — that questionable gift. Recently, I was asked to think about how to make kids love math. Here are my thoughts, as the first of three posts. This article will be published in Wilmott Magazine. Continue reading →