Blowing Out Candles

Today is MathTango’s 5-year anniversary (...will wonders never cease!); in commemoration, before blowing out the candles, I'll just link to a few of my favorite miscellaneous posts over that time (no particular order):

Tribute to David Foster Wallace:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2014/07/infinity-and-angst-david-foster-wallace.html  

Review of Siobhan Roberts’ “Genius At Play,” my favorite volume of 2015:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2015/07/author-at-play-siobhan-roberts-reports.html  

Interviewing Fawn Nguyen:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2014/05/fawn-nguyen-passion-personified.html

Anniversary of Alan Sokal’s hoax:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2016/09/20th-year-anniversary-alan-sokals-hoax.html

An old Keith Devlin volume:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2016/08/making-invisible-visible.html

On Platonism:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2013/12/of-dinosaurs-and-mathematics-and-pathos.html