Tag: fiction
C.S. Lewis on Commutative Algebra
Read the whole essay here . Sorry for the pause in blogging -- I should start up again soon.
What's wrong with the world?
In 1910, G.K. Chesterton (one of my favorite authors -- I highly recommend The Man Who Was Thursday and the Father Brown mysteries) diagnosed all the world's problems. You can read his famous diagnosis, What's Wrong With the World , at P…
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…