We are not alone in the universe. As cliché as it sounds, many of us conjecture it to be a fact. Just consider the number of places where life could form. Estimates are there are 1024 planets in the universe, with potentially trillions of planets in our galaxy alone. The possibility that we are the only form of life in… Read More Before The Martian, there was Ben Bova’s Grand Tour Series
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
It’s a busy week with Convocation here at Ryerson University. I give five speeches alone to graduates on Wednesday. So this week I thought I would just offer some quick ideas for great reads in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres.… Read More Amazing SFF reads
I wrote a science fiction novel Pattern Earth with mathematical themes. After 16-year-old Kris Argentia—a mathematics prodigy—proves the Riemann hypothesis, the world’s deepest and until now un-solved mathematical problem, she is charged by high-ranking world officials to advise the M-Team, a group of the planet’s best mathematical minds. The M-Team are comprised of geniuses tasked with staving… Read More Pattern Earth: a novel
The Intrepid Mathematician 