On Mathematical Intelligence and How It Grows
TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it’s like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and […]
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Beautiful & Simple Math: An Adventure into the Infinite and the Irrational
This article is a semi-continuation of my previous post regarding the sordid state of Rutgers University’s ‘Liberal Arts Math’ curriculum. Since people seemed to like it, I thought I’d switch […]
Math & the Liberal Arts Education at Rutgers University
Introductory-level mathematics education is a festering wart on this country’s nose. More locally, Rutgers—a university which touts some of the best researchers in applied mathematics, as well as a top-twenty […]
Popular Science is Garbage… and Math is To Blame
The holy grail of amateur linguistics is the construction of a language which is both “maximally precise” and “maximally concise”—in other words, packing more information into fewer symbols; in other, other words, […]
Applied Sentience 