A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.
- The New York Times, June 30, 2025
How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling→
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Essays
How Bees, Beer Cans and Data Solve the Same Packing Problem→
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Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 dimensions.
- The New York Times, June 23, 2025
What the Golden Ratio Says About Your Belly Button→
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The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you.
- The New York Times, June 16, 2025
Where Pi Equals 4 and Circles Aren’t Round→
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In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat.
- The New York Times, June 9, 2025
How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series→
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Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.
— Quanta Magazine, August 31, 2022
How Infinite Series Reveal the Unity of Mathematics→
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Infinite sums are among the most underrated yet powerful concepts in mathematics, capable of linking concepts across math’s vast web.
— Quanta Magazine, January 24, 2022
Who's Afraid of Big Numbers?→
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Pretty much everyone. But it doesn’t have to be that way, two mathematicians contend.
-The New York Times, June 17, 2021
From a Swinging Chandelier to Global Positioning Systems (PDF)→
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Calculus has unraveled mysteries that puzzled scientists for centuries, and it has led to technologies they never would have imagined.
— American Scientist, March-April, 2021
John Bardeen: The Greatest Physicist You (Probably) Never Heard Of→
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He might have won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and 1972, but the man who invented the transistor and solved superconductivity is far from a household name.
- BBC Science Focus, September 18, 2019
Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem foreshadows the scientist he later became.
- The New Yorker
November 19, 2015