A weekend at the beach and pool was just what I needed to catch up on some reading. I completed S.K. Dunstall’s excellent novel Linesman, which came out in June this year. For me, one of the deepest questions posed by Linesman is how art and science interface. Artists talk of craft. Mathematicians talk about… Read More Flash review of Linesman by S.K. Dunstall
This past Sunday, I completed my seventh marathon. A personal best at 3:54. The day was cold in Toronto, with temperatures hovering around zero Celsius at race start, and leveling off around 6 Celsius by the end. Over 26,000 runners competed in the Scotiabank Waterfront Toronto Marathon. There was a full marathon, half marathon, and a… Read More Marathon
I called it! I am either psychic or saavy: Dev Patel will star as Srinivasa Ramanujan in the upcoming biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity, which will be one of the highly sought after galas at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. I actually called for Patel to play Ramanujan in an earlier post… I… Read More TIFF: Ramanujan biopic and The Martian
The Intrepid Mathematician 