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  • A mathematician’s clock

    I accidentally broke Ben’s clock. I knocked it off the wall, thinking I was reaching for the light switch, and it fell on the floor and broke. We love Ben’s clock. It was a gift from his sister and always entertains visitors to our house. Ben and I spent a bit of time yesterday afternoon finding…

  • Ben

    In case it isn’t obvious on my blog, Ben is a genius, so I’m going to dedicate this next post to him. After all, who knows all the poems in Lord of the Rings off by heart? Something I haven’t mentioned before is that Ben is an International Chess Master. He’s been playing chess, and…

  • A mathematician’s clock and the joy in suffering (just a little bit)

    Visitors to our house are always impressed with Ben’s clock so I thought I’d share a pic: His sister bought it for him. After our terrific bicycle ride on Saturday I was thinking about what it is that’s so good about cycling from one place to another. There’s all the obvious things like the “fun”…

  • What to buy a mathematician for Christmas

    Men are hard to buy presents for. Mathematicians are even harder. All they really need is a pencil and some paper … and maybe a rubbish bin (unlike economists who don’t use the rubbish bin). Which reminds me of a joke: What do mathematicians do when they’re constipated? They work it out with a pencil. I…