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Category: Logic
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Mathematical Cardiac Arrest As my readers should know by now, I teach mathematics, focusing mainly on students in high school and there too preferring to focus on students in grades 11 and 12. Hence, when students reach me, their foundation in mathematics has, for the most part, been laid, for good or ill. Unfortunately, very…
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Key Questions I had planned something else for the post I would release today. However, with the 2024 General Elections in India around the corner, a few people have asked me, “Does my vote count?” and “Does my vote matter?” These may seem to be the same question. However, they are decidedly different, as we…
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Importance of Calling a Spade a Spade Ok, ok! Don’t get all wound up with the title of this post. There will be no kidnapping involved. Nor will any of you be held for ransom. It’s just that I think sometimes mathematicians seem to have some strange inclination for choosing terminology that will shoot them…