Monthly Archives: October 2020

If we built a castle to the Sun,   A castle made of solid gold,Gold produced by highest tech,  Newton’s dearest dream of old,With every human skill applied  To make the castle comfortable,Where people played exciting games.  Supposing we were capable.It … Continue reading →

Politics, economics, international relations, domestic and foreign policy: These are only a few of innumerable examples of what I like to call “human areas” where enormously divergent and even oppositional belief systems develop in people’s minds, and in the minds … Continue reading →

FUN WITH EXPONENTS: I know, you want an escape from 2020. Take a peek at these simple review problems with exponents: 1) Find the (outrageous) flaw in the following “proof”: Let t>0 be any real number, and i=SQRT(-1). Then exp(it) … Continue reading →