Alec Wilkinson, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, recently wrote about his quest to study math later in life. Here is a link to his September 6, 2022, article: How Mathematics Changed Me | The New Yorker. He started his quest five years ago at age 65. He also writes about this in his book, A divine language : learning algebra, geometry, and calculus at the edge of old age. I have the book on order and look forward to reviewing it.
From his article, I understand much of what Wilkinson learned during his quest as I started this math blog late in my life. This blog started as a Covid project two years ago when I was 61. We both learned strangeness of different types of infinities, mystery of design of our world, and how God in unknowable.
11/8/2022 Update - my local library got this book, and I just finished it. Wilkinson included stories about many of my favorite mathematicians. I liked that he was able to interview Chris Ferguson, who won $1,000,000 in the World Series of Poker in 2000, shortly after earning his PhD from UCLA.
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