I've been a bit lax with blog posts recently since I've been finishing off my next book, a follow-up to Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Here's Looking at Euclid, due out in 2014. The publishing ...
In August of 1950, when I was just a little tyke and my sister Laura but a babe in arms, our family set out in our 1947 Kaiser from Princeton, New Jersey, for parts West. We were moving out to ...
Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979. In 1983, he coined the word “ambigram”, meaning a piece of text ...