I first ran in to Martin‘s work in back-issues of Scientific American. He stopped writing his Mathematical Games column in 1981, but my mentor Virgil Matheson had all the older issues and had a free hand in lending them out, albeit one-at-a-time. From my mentor, I also got the best math book I’ve ever read,…
Tag: calculus
There are no limits, only quanta. There is no smooth, only lumpy. Analog is a myth; the world is digital. We just haven’t found the extent of its mantissa. – SymbolismLost. More collected Geek Thoughts at http://geekthoughts.info.