by John Lane, Philosophy Most academic papers are not very funny. I know because I’ve read them. The stereotype of academic writing is that it’s more akin to a bizarre linguistic purgatory that hates you and delights in your suffering than it is to a real intellectual discussion. The fact that it’s also unfunny doesn’t…
by Delaney Morgan, Mathematics We write all the time in academia. But we usually only write for a specialized audience. Students write for the professor teaching their class, and professors write for the other people in their field. In intensely specialized subjects like math, this means their work may only be read by a handful…
by Isnayni Hadi If I were to ask you, “What is mathematical writing?” would you think of an equation or maybe a sequence of symbolic statements? Years of grade-school mathematics has trained us to make that association: math is just a series of solving equations. The curriculum requires us to take algebra, geometry, and a…