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A non-violent anarchist Mathematics teacher and Christian who has views about everything under the sun.

Category: Mathematical aesthetics

  • The Beauty and Importance of Geometry

    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…

  • Limerwocky

    Fun with Numbers – and Words Today is Good Friday. So, in the other part of my life as a pastor things are quite serious today. So I thought I would post something with a more light hearted tone here. As the reader would know, I teach mathematics. This is in part because, at a…

  • The Tyranny of Numbers (And How to Break Free)

    Launching Pad I launched this blog on Friday, 1 March 2024. I knew that I wanted to have a post specifically for International Women’s Day on Friday, 8 March 2024, which became Primordial Prime Ordinals. So I had planned something else as my third post for this blog. However, after the first post, The Eye…

  • Primordial Prime Ordinals

    Personal Experiences This post is of a more personal nature and really does not deal with mathematics per se. Rather, it uses my experiences as a student and teacher of mathematics as a springboard to talk about women in the field of mathematics. For as long as I can remember, I have been reasonably adept…

  • The Eye of the Beholder

    I was in the 12th grade when I came across what I, along with many others, have come to recognize as the most beautiful equation in Mathematics. This was way back toward the end of 1986. Unfortunately, none of my Mathematics teachers that year ever bothered to show me and my fellow students the beauty…