Experimental psychologist and writer @mastroianni.bsky.social published an essay arguing for closer inspection of art, which is guaranteed to reveal deep caves of meaning. Sadly, not much of the motivation to delve into such thickness was instilled by his teachers so he discovered it by himself.

I was passionate about writing instruments since starting school. A #fountainpen was mandatory in Romania and we used #calligraphy notebooks to keep our letters and slants uniform. #Handwriting became my passion. I changed my style countless times and I still look critically at my letter forms.

#Memory can work like a furnished room which you could expand to a full building. The method of loci, also known as “the memory palace” is a technique for organizing your experience as if you are designing and decorating rooms.

I remember reading Raymond Wilder's #book “Mathematics As a Cultural System” and feeling conflicted. How can something as universal as #mathematics be influenced by #culture?

G. H. Hardy's "A Mathematician's Apology" should be on anyone's #reading list, whether they are interested in #mathematics, #science, #history, or #philosophy.

I came across Sinéad O'Sullivan's essay on symbolic v. structural thinking in #mathematics. Taking from her own experience as a lover of topology, she spells out what many teachers and students should be more aware of. Instead of #math as a language, take a step back and look at it structurally.

I like going down #etymology rabbit holes, especially when it comes to words from #math or #science For example, the story of "algebra" commonly includes al-Khwarizmi's treatise, "Kitab al-Jabr...", but this was not the *creation* story of this word.