Thanksgiving has come and gone. If you’re like me, you cooked so much on Thanksgiving that you don’t plan to cook for the rest of 2022. Truth be told, I’d rather study mathematics with your children each day than plan and prepare dinner. However, my family needs to eat. So this food for thought blog […]
Mathematics is multidimensional. Not in a matrix reality sort of way or merely a one-dimension measurement versus two-dimension, but rather in a philosophical way. Mathematics is the study of the infinite using the finite. It is the observation of the infinite through patterns, and the predictability of the future through equations. We aren’t so concerned
I shared some tidbits of truth from the great Mathematician and Philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa back in May of this year. At the time, I was diving into his short but important text “Introduction to Arithmetic”. Why am I continuing to read and study ancient mathematicians? Because we are standing on the shoulders of giants.
“For if we know how to prove the truth, we shall know at the same time how to distinguish it from error.” This quote sounds like something we might read from the philosophers Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, or even the apostle Paul. However, this is actually a quote from the introduction of Pascal’s Treatise “On
Deciding between good and good seems to be the battle of adulthood. I can’t remember the last time that I had the privilege of choosing between good and bad. Those decisions seem easy compared to the good vs. good choices. When the alternative to a decision is “bad”, the Christian decision seems obvious. Following through
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