Professor Anand "Zero-Sum" Subramaniam

— A brief history of the rabbit that ate Tuscany, and the single misplaced dot that caused it. —

🎙 On the Phonograph

— An argument for why European navigators should have checked their work, and against borrowing your rival’s homework. —

🎙 On the Phonograph

— The Seljuk court’s most notorious aesthetic feud was settled not with taste, but with conic sections. —

— How a 7th-Century Mathematical Beef Stalled Progress for a Millennium by Trying to Disprove the Number Zero. —

— How a single slip-up in the math department led to history’s most embarrassing anticlimax. —

— How a misdirected sonnet almost proved love non-Euclidean. —

— How Archimedes, in a Fit of Pique, Invented Bureaucracy and Doomed Rome to a Fate Worse Than Death: Spreadsheets. —

— Or, How a Petty Mesopotamian Asshole Accidentally Invented Geometry and Ruined Dinner —

— How One Scribe’s Shitty Handwriting Accidentally Invented Bureaucracy —

— Spite, not necessity, is the mother of mathematical invention. Also, Behold! —