The infinity of primes (proof as poem)

The math-po (and sci-po) stream keeps flowing. Math Mama Writes, who started the whole math-poetry movement has some more on her blog, and here is Erin Nash with some really beautiful biological poetry. And of course, here’s her husband Sean Nash having his...

Stuck with Google (recursively)

The other day, for one reason or another, I did a Google search for the word “recursion.” According to Wikipedia, recursion … in mathematics and computer science, is a method of defining functions in which the function being defined is applied within...