Stories tagged “mathematics”

  • Applied Mathematics

    I woke shivering. Lack of water had sent me into bizarre feverish dreams: something about a mysterious man and a secret formula. Then I heard scrabbling and thumping at the floor and remembered that my reality was even worse. I sat up and was rummaging...

  • Musing on First Contact

    “What if I were the person to make extraterrestrial contact?” she asked of her computer screen. It was her favorite part of the day, the time directly after she’d started code compiling, or simulations simulating. The blessed interval...

  • Son of Bonaccio

    “…” “Aldo!” “What?” “Come here!” “Right now? Why?” “You need to meet someone.” “I am rather busy right now. Maybe later.” “I really think you should make th...

    • Author: kwatz
    • Posted about 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Rides

    Consider the world a theme-park, separated by an infinite number of gates, each section holding rides of greater excitement and wonder. Mathematics being th key to each of these gates. Surely this warrants math a fair measure of prestige. However, the ...