February 7

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Better Than News

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote his 1940 essay "A Mathematician's Apology", justifying his life's work in mathematics, because he felt the approach of old age and the decline of his mathematical creativity and skills, and that by devoting time to writing the Apology, Hardy was admitting that his own time as a creative mathematician was finished?

• ... that the science fiction comedy television series Gilligan's Matrix is loosely based on both Gilligan's Island and The Matrix?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

Topic of the Day

Dune