Ben Orlin

A mathematician is hardly a reasonable person. More like a feral philosopher or a logician gone rogue.

If Taleb convinced me that Mathematics was beautiful philosophy, Ben Orlin is the one made me fall in love with it. Change is the Only Constant is beautiful and funny at the same time. It’s the story of Calculus over the ages and through domains. It weaves through life and time, through people, interesting and otherwise. And the way Ben tells it, it bears no resemblance to the dry crap that is taught in schools and colleges. It’s beautiful and wonderful, but not paramount and still subject to the vagaries and complexities of life and nature. ...