Tag: cool
The parity of zero, the primality of two, and other mysteries
From time to time, I try to speak or write about mathematics for general (non-mathematical) audiences. If you've done this, you know it's pretty hard -- in large part because it's hard to know what people know, despite my best attempts t…
Man After Man
One of my favorite books growing up was Dougal Dixon 's Man after man: an anthropology of the future , which imagines the development and speciation of humanity in the far future -- under the influence of both genetic engineering and apo…