And now that we’ve officially embarked on Summer, it’s time for something completely different, as Monty Python famously remarked.

Mathematics is a thing apart, like nothing else in our world. It’s a human invention (I think), but not like other inventions. It exists in our minds and nowhere else – although its effects are felt everywhere since science, engineering, and technology have adopted it as their language. Yet, despite the fact that most people lump math and science together, they are very different. (more…)