Love and Mathematics
Ah! It’s Valentine’s Day, and a young man’s fancy turns to…mathematics?
Not really. But mathematics, or at least the language of mathematics, can be useful in discussing helpful advice to promote love in your life. In fact, I encourage you to consider matters of affection stated in terms familiar to any calculus or precalculus student. (And you thought you wouldn’t use calculus in “real life”!)
First, however, I want to discuss an idea attributed to Michelangelo that I have always cherished:
