Spooky Math Story: The Why-Wolf
Bitten by a philosophy major in college, the mathematician became not a werewolf but a why-wolf, howling about Platonism and the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-10-25-the-world-s-spookiest-math-stories--spooky-math-story-the-why-wolf/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Bitten by a philosophy major in college, the mathematician became not a werewolf but a why-wolf, howling about Platonism and the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.