"The Heresy of Friar Travolo" can be seen as how new, paradigm-shifting ideas may be treated by unprepared minds. In the guise of breaking one of mathematics' fundamental laws, the story attempts to show how too much caution may lead to stagnant thinking, or the avoidance of thinking itself.

​Learn from this cautionary tale, and apply the lessons in your every thought.

In mathematics, it was always assumed that everything is based on our rational understanding of logic and common sense. Unlike physics, which can get extremely esoteric, mathematics limits itself how abstract our understanding of logic can get.

But once in a while there are those who cross over that limit, into fields that borders on pseudoscience such as numerology. Gerge Cantor was such a person.

A string of numbers. They can mean something, or nothing. They can guide us to patterns in nature, or drive a mathematician to the brink of his or her sanity.

Eleanor Wood's "Fibonacci" is a story that even non-mathematicians can appreciate. It tells of the sting of failure, and the exhilarating atmosphere of success.

​In Part 1, we covered the history of π, it’s properties, where it came from, and the race to find the largest number of decimal points.

​In Part 2, we’ll finally get into the story of the Man Who Saved π.

Continuing from Part 1, we will now explore how physics expands from the realm of observable theories to experimental practices.

​Kepler and Brahe had laid the foundations, though it takes an occultist and  part-time alchemist to unravel the mathematical language of physics.