You may remember this picture of a persnickety Perkins working the angles on a coopering demonstration. With a bit of math and the ...

There is in just about every artisan, a touch of obsessive compulsion. Whether or not it's a disorder depends on how you feel about bein...

"For the eye is always in search of beauty, and if we do not gratify its desire for pleasure by a proportionate enlargement in these m...

This being the part where we turn math into a drinking vessel... You may remember this bit of algebra from last week. Contrary to what I...

This is going to be a longish post and it's going to involve some basic math. If you've a fear of either, I feel for you because tho...