Responsibilities, Rights and Privileges
Recently I had to talk harshly to my daughter about the responsibilities of family members. Although I would like to […]
Recently I had to talk harshly to my daughter about the responsibilities of family members. Although I would like to […]
At some point in their life, most parents of teenage children would have asked a question very similar to the
Another pen, another story about the tightrope act called parenting.
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.
One simple question. For some of us to be wealthy, is it necessary to keep some others poor?