Idea Lawyer Blog

Quarterly taxes will soon be due. Again. A few days ago I posted the fun comparative approach to animal courtship, mating and reproduction (Headless Males Make Great Lovers. Read it and see why the geeky male bower bird steals toothbrushes along with baubles, bangles and bright shiny things). Switching to intellectual fecundity, and to get an appreciation of the many species of mathemeticians, try reading David Belinski's Infinite Ascent. His prose rolls trippingly on the (retinal) tongue, and he puts personality behind his short history of mathematics. It is short, it is mainly history, and yes the players are mathematicians.