The Errant Mind

Finally, someone who is able to express in cogent and surprisingly easy to read ways that odd sense of creativity and beauty that has always captured and kept some of us under the spell of mathematics.  It is the art of it; the potential of a blank canvas and a bunch of paint tubes pales in comparison to the limitless opportunities presented by a blank sheet of paper and a theorem.  Anyone who has ever wondered what mathematics is good for should read this.  What’s music good for?  What’s a fluffy kitten good for? Why do we adorn our walls with pictures?  Math should be its own reason…