Responsibilities, Rights and Privileges
Recently I had to talk harshly to my daughter about the responsibilities of family members. Although I would like to […]
children
Why Have Kids?
At some point in their life, most parents of teenage children would have asked a question very similar to the
Malayalam, Work and Life, Parenting
Another Pen Story of Tough Love
Another pen, another story about the tightrope act called parenting.
Columns, The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Physics vs. Finance
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.
Columns, The Wilmott Magazine, Topical, Quantitative Finance
Math and Patterns
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.
Love of Math
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.
How to be a Good Parent
Practical advice to my younger readers.
Environment, Quantitative Finance
An Economics Question
One simple question. For some of us to be wealthy, is it necessary to keep some others poor?