Mathematics Rising

I often get stuck in the gap we rarely notice between the word and what the word is meant to signify.   Do we really understand what word and symbol actually do?  Or, even more to the point, can we see what the body is accomplishing in the evolution of these cognitive tools? In a film [...]

I hope to use this blog to find new things to see about mathematics.  And this might even have some effect on how we see ourselves. I want to start with something Henri Poincare said. Poincare was an intellectual heavyweight, a mathematician, theoretical physicist, and philosopher. He was the last person to be able to [...]