Natural Blogarithms

I’ve very often been asked the question of what I do and when I tell someone I teach mathematics and do mathematics research, I am invariably asked what I research. For many of the things I spend my time on, I have yet to be able to communicate to someone that doesn’t speak in [...]

I have finally taken the time to answer a question that has bothered me for some time. There is a solitaire card game that I learned while I was a Sojourner (high school summer missionary) in Bakersfield, California. I don’t know any sort of official name for the game, which means I can’t [...]

So, in any other day and age the following story would vanish into obscurity, yet now, I feel compelled to document my complete descent into that professor I never wanted to be. You know the one, the one that is apparently focused on some deep problem, like the convergence rate for a three field [...]

After learning that there are others that I actually know that are blogging, I am making my triumphant return to the land of the bloggers. Looking at the last blog date, I think I can safely say that I am returning from my second longest hiatus from blogging, where the longest was the first [...]