Equations you can play, and poems whose structure you can move through. Each piece pairs a written narrative with a mathematical relationship you can explore by hand.
Time runs faster as you get older, because a year is a smaller fraction of a longer life. Enter your own birthday and a parent’s, and watch that ratio read as Einstein’s time dilation — from one day old out to a googol years.
Two men who suffer by decree. The suffering of the pious set as the arrogance of their God over His ostentatious generosity — an equation you can solve three ways.
Averroes’ chain — ignorance to fear to hate to violence — read as a composition of functions, where the chain rule shows why breaking one link breaks it all.