By Susan Sechrist
“…while you don’t need to be an artist to appreciate art, or a musician to love music, our culture seems to insist that only mathematicians do math.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Go Figure
GO FIGURE: “Requires Great Fantasy”
By Susan Sechrist
“The fiction is self-contained and self-referential; it can stand alone as a finished version of reality, albeit in a consensually-agreed upon, useful disguise.” Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Overthrown
By Susan Sechrist
…unlike the simplest mathematical hyperbola, with its matching twin curves riven and moving toward different infinities, these stories don’t reflect across an obvious boundary condition—there is no simple, congruent image on the other side… Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Not “an Atom of Meaning in It…”
By Susan Sechrist
“Who in the world am I?… I’m sure I’m not Ada… and I’m sure I can’t be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! She knows such a very little! Besides, she’s she and I’m I and – oh dear, how puzzling it all is!…” Continue reading
GO FIGURE: Proof of Concept
By Susan Sechrist
The older we get, with maturity and wisdom, the more adventurous we can become. The segregation of complex ideas into distinct categories ceases to be useful or even necessary – what we once feared or needed some semblance of control over becomes the very source of our later-in-life creativity. Continue reading
