Dave Richeson of Division by Zero has recently posted a very nice GeoGebra applet for the interesting discrete logistic equation. \[p(n + 1) = Mp(n)(1 - p(n))\] The discrete logistic equation is a simple model of population growth within a...

Every man has somewhere in the back of his head the wreck of a thing which he calls his education. - Stephen Leacock, A Manual of Education I recently stumbled upon some of Stephen Leacock's writings on wikisource (also available at Project...

In a paper published this week on arXiv, Dann van Berkel mentions the famous proof (or joke, depending on how you view things) that all natural numbers are interesting. Essentially, if there are uninteresting natural numbers, consider the smallest such...

To see any pure math lecture on TED is exciting. Why are these things so rare? A recent talk by Marcus du Sautoy, Symmetry, reality's riddle, is now availalbe here. Marcus du Sautoy is a prolific mathematics expositor, and was recently appointed as...

In The Calculus of Friendship, Steven Strogatz, a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell, gives us a memoir of the friendship he has maintained with his former high school teacher, Don Joffray, as revealed through fragments of their 30 year...