When Your Child is as Big as You
My mom used to say that when your child is as big as you, you have to treat them with […]
My mom used to say that when your child is as big as you, you have to treat them with […]
At some point in their life, most parents of teenage children would have asked a question very similar to the
Just read the news that Prof Maryam Mirzakhani won the prestigious Fields medal (the equivalent of Nobel prize in Mathematics).
Many companies owe small sums of money to us. Should we ignore it because the sum is small, or fight it because their loot is huge?
On the shady reimbursement practices of insurance companies.
Another pen, another story about the tightrope act called parenting.
On the loss of a second parent, and its implications.
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.
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.
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.
Practical advice to my younger readers.