Better than binary: four kinds of false dichotomy
I’ve been helping put together some materials for a new class we’re tentatively calling “Math and Public Life”, organized around ten or so concepts from higher mathematics and how they relate to the way we think about life and each other. One of the themes I’m hoping to show is that often as our understanding […]
A Quadrilateral Venn Diagram
For a future blog post, I’ve been thinking about how sometimes, when we have two alternatives, one is really a special or “limiting” case of the other, the way a square is just a special case of rectangle. I’m still working on that post, but meanwhile I’ve been distracted by thinking about other shapes that […]