Republic of Mathematics blog

These days, higher dimensional spaces are not regarded as weirdly as they were formerly. Most people – in the United States, at least – have seen the e-Harmony advertisements in which the company boasts it “matches single women and men based on 29 Dimensions® of Compatibility“. And most educated people are more or less familiar […]

Computational media and “What if?” Digital technology allows greater computational power in smaller and more portable, and affordable devices.  By “computational” I do not mean only “doing sums”. Software such as Geogebra , Geometer’s Sketchpad and Cabri are also computational media. What makes them so is their use of computation to keep track of relationships […]