You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found something repulsive about it….

The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'.

Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary ev….

Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful..

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book..

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics..

Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or t….

When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly large….

The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition fr….

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must..