Shiny Pebbles and other stuff

How can we assess large numbers of objects? What's the Problem? Suppose we want to assign scores to a large colle...

How should we think of the second derivative, and what does it tell us? The Derivative Before worrying about higher...

Hilbert's (or The Infinite) Hotel is a well-known setting for thinking about infinite sets, and in particular for th...

What does it mean to differentiate a complex function? If we have a complex function, \[ f:\mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C},...

I just realised that there's a neat relationship between Cauchy's integral formula and the mean value theorem for...

In this post I'm going to look at what we can say about the trigonometric functions, \(\sin\) and \(\cos\) without act...

Why can't we drop our dangerous waste into the sun? It's tempting to consider getting rid of dangerous (or u...