Acorn Archive

Acorn Archive

Mathematical maladies of the ‘new millennium’

Fooling most of the people most of the time

Gary A Schlueter's avatar
Gary A Schlueter
Dec 30, 2023
∙ Paid

    While re-reading Anthony Trollope’s Dr. Thorne for the third or fourth time, I came across a narrative which started a line of thinking that eventually led me to a surprising discovery.

    The novel is set in the English countryside of the 1850s. The narrator who shows the almost omnipresent prescience you’d expect of a novel’s narrator also shows a…

User's avatar

Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Gary A Schlueter.

Or purchase a paid subscription.
© 2026 Gary A Schlueter · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture