On Gerolamo Cardano
He was certainly an extraordinary man. There’s something, I think, to telling students stories about the people who have helped invent today’s: mathematics. It may be the most abstract of subjects. But the range of characters involved in it are far from dull. This wrestling with the abstract, perhaps, might provide an In for those...
Bellos, Monkeys and Memory
Just been to a great ‘maths lesson’ by The Idler Academy’s Head of Mathematics, Alex Bellos. Much of it I’d read in his book, Alex’s Adventures in Numberland but there were enough interesting asides – and a refreshing lack of portentous ‘thinkers’ – for it to be a good evening....