Early on, when they began dating, my father lent to my mother his copy of The Brothers Karamazov. Evidently, the courting rituals of Jews are somewhat different. Continue reading “Kurt Vonnegut, America and Flags”
Tag: literature
Tom’s “Mystery of Formica’s Triangles”
Tom Peachey has posted a mathematical story on his blog: The Mystery of Formica’s Triangles. A draft of this story was also posted on this blog a few years ago, and readers can check out the discussion that followed. Anyway, for this who haven’t read it, Tom’s is a fun Flatlandish story. Go to Tom’s blog and check it out. Continue reading “Tom’s “Mystery of Formica’s Triangles””
The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade
The following is an excerpt from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. Heller’s novel was published sixty years ago, and thus has absolutely nothing to tell us about the modern world. We can’t even figure out why we thought to post it.
Family Mathematics
And now for something completely different: poetry.
Last Year, the Evil Mathologre was contacted by Ros, an editor at Cordite, an Australian poetry magazine. Ros was searching for a mathematician to be part of a poetry-mathematics collaboration, with poet Tricia Dearborn. Well aware of our literary pretensions, EM handballed the gig to us. The strange fruit of this collaboration has now appeared.