The Numbers Game Is Here: Mathematics for Dummies
The beauty of math, of numbers and other beautiful patterns. Of Geometry and Science. Watch out it’s heavy.
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Fourth Quaternary April Magazine: Four More
Welcome to the month of April. As they used to say in England back in the 14th century…… “When that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghe of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich liccur Of which vertu has engendered is the flour…….” Happy April. Happy Spring. And since… Continue reading
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More on the Four
More on the four and don’t ask “What four?” Let’s talk about the symmetry of the four. We see it, we use it all the time. Check out these 4-based tesselations from the Alhambra palace in Grenada. An aside about tesselations: A tesselation is a repeating geometric pattern. Somehow they appeal to our sense of… Continue reading
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Third Tri-Centennial March Magazine
03/03/23 Happy March! Happy Third Month of the Gregorian Calendar! And guess what? Bumba is again going to talk about the three. Oh, no! Not again. this must be the third time already that….. That’s right! Three’s the charm Hurray for the Three! The Triad! The Equilateral Triangle! The Holy Trinity! The Three Graces……. Two… Continue reading
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February Magazine
Hey, it’s February already. February is a short month, a consequence of fitting 12 months into 365 days. Somebody, one of the months, had to draw the short stick. BTW, just 28 days this year, no leaping. Naturally, with February being the second month, Bumbastories feels deeply obliged to return to a consideration of the… Continue reading
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December Magazine
Hail December! The Twelfth month! Hail to the number twelve. Three cheers (four times) for the 12!!! !!! !!! !!! The word twelve, whose early English-Germanic roots derive from “two left”- or two left over after counting to ten – completes a certain cycle for us. We count the hours by 12’s. After… Continue reading
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Another November Magazine
This month’s magazine features a Politics section, a Sports section, an Arts and Music section, a quick song, and of course one of those March Through the Numbers things about the number Eleven. Politics When my mother was alive we talked about everything, including politics. My mother was never overly involved with politics. She always… Continue reading
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Semi-Annual October Magazine
Semi-Annual Bumbastories October Magazine October being the tenth calendar month, we present yet another salute to the number ten. Ten Ten. It’s the number of fingers on our two hands. Count ’em. Ten is also the basis of our number system – which only uses nine numerals after all, plus a zero. Once we reach… Continue reading
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The Bi-Centennial Annual Bumbastories September Magazine
Welcome to September again. Talk about climate change, another steamy Labor Day weekend is predicted for L.A. Its been another hot year out here. Worldwide the signs of climate change are finally so severe (costly) that they cannot be entirely ignored by the politicians. Maybe there will be some progress on reducing emissions someday soon.… Continue reading
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The Bumbastories’ Octocentennial August Magazine
Happy August. Happy eighth month of the year! The month August is named after the Roman emperor Augustus, who named the month after himself in order to celebrate …er….himself. August means admirable and reverential, august implies all things good. Ol’ Octavius thought Augustus sounded cool. As indeed it is. The August flower is the poppy,… Continue reading
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Another Bumbastories Septo-Millennial July Magazine
Welcome to the month of July, the seventh month. It’s summer for sure. Gonna be a hot one. Covid is still running its course, the horrors in Ukraine continue unabated, the economy is supposedly in trouble, and the Supreme Court and the right wing have exercised their power to take away hard-earned freedoms and to… Continue reading
About Me
Bumba’s real name is Stephen Baum, and he was born and raised in the Bronx, a product of the NYC school system. All the same, he has written two fine, literary novels – one is called Up in the Bronx, and the other is called One Life or the Lives of Chester Knowles. Check them out on Bumba Books. Also included in this blog are a number of Bumba’s original songs, plus a lot of traditi0nal country music – all played by Bumba and his friend Maybank. You’ll also find some poems, odes, stories, humorous pieces, and a lot of didactic stuff about science, especially paleontology, and numbers.Lots of stuff about numbers. Watch out.
The Occasional Story 