Today I finished listening to A Brief History of Mathematics. I also found and listened to an audio excerpt from the 1888 book A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball. The recording was made to be used as a sleep aid and is designed to be soothing, which seemed appropriate. Finally, inspired by the Banach-Tarski video from yesterday, I spent some time thinking about the sizes of infinite sets. They weren’t very deep thoughts, but perhaps I will share them in the next few days.
Many people would consider “soothing math” an amusing oxymoron.