Stories by ColinWright

Bill Thurston answers: What's a mathematician to do?

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly

Why an empty sum is 0 and an empty product 1?

The secret tedious math under famous ppl’s beautifully simple understandings

How to use Zorn's lemma

Explore graphs of complex functions in your browser

Rolling Ball Clock

Ping Tunnel – Send TCP Traffic Over ICMP

There is another way of doing mathematics [pdf]

Left Truncatable Prime

Accuracy upto how many decimals? The mysterious appearance of the digits 4 and 8

Helping a student exasperated by abstract concepts in linear algebra

The Chess Engine That Died So AlphaGo Could Live

PSA: Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien

President Trump believes in IQ tests. He’s not wrong

Wi-fi security flaw 'puts devices at risk of hacks'

Random Walks on Finite Groups [pdf]

The Hardness of the Lemmings Game