Why do we insist that our god be infinite? Why would being bound in a nutshell world give us bad dreams? Why do we fear the cloister more than the agora? Longing and love have always “the expansion of ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

It's been a while since I wrote a post in this series, but since I've been teaching Calculus 2 this term the time is right. This all began when a former student wrote to ask how we know that those ...