Tag: math in the time of Covid-19

• May 16, 2020

  Cook County, Queens County, & Raw Numbers as Obfuscation

  Everyone has a different reaction to stress, and I am well aware that one of mine—getting pickier (and more prickly) about information accuracy—is not a normal one. Because I know and accept that my responses are in no way normal, and that I get colder as I get more stressed, I try to be understanding […]
• March 14, 2020

  Pi Day 2020

  Happy Pi Day in this strange and frightful year! I hope you’ve had pie and also pi, if that’s your thing. Whether or not you think of yourself as a pi person, and as as a former collector of 500s (otherwise known, outside Dewey-ified libraries, as hard math and science), I’m here with some books […]