Tag: mathematics

• Happy birthday to me, sort of (September 30, 2026)

  Today I turned ten Cobalt-60 half-lives old, according to the Mathaversaries calendar I subscribed to quite a while ago. (Technically, I am subscribed to its predecessor project, Mathematical Anniversaries, which I dimly recall learning of through Making Light, or some place like it.)

• Mark Dominus talks about ordinals (July 12, 2026)

  After slowly and carefully reading “Starting to understand epsilon-zero” by Mark Dominus, I definitely understand the fundamentals of set theory and ordinal numbers better than I did. But I must admit that the theory dances out of my grasp just before reaching the conclusion promised by the title. I don’t think that’s the article’s fault!