Words, words, words, I'm so sick of words.  I get words all day through; First from him, now from you! This refrain from My Fair Lad...

This short series of three posts were focused on how stuff accumulates in our lives (computers, closets, garages) - in fact the piles grow t...

Here we are again, checking images on my Mac at work. I'm trying to get closer to infinity, (which is not a number, by the way, but a co...

Infinity is a word that implies no limit. "Unbounded time, distance or quantity." Here's the symbol for it - looks a bit lik...

I saw a book called the Geometry of Pasta , and decided that it could entertain us today in the math blog. After all, geometry is clearly ma...

I saw a word for the first time today. It might have been coined about 35 years ago. Dyscalculia . It literally means counting badly , o...