Of course, I can’t be Dirac. Dirac was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. I am the author of Boogie Math, a silly website about mathematics.

There was a time when I talked about Paul Dirac all the time. My wife had quite enough of it and our neighbor Vera, who heard some of my monologues, said she was sick of listening about Dirac too. It was after I read his biography The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo.

The poor guy who is not able to tell onion from garlic is starting Math Circle - weekly mathematical meetings for kids.

So, after having read one or two mathematical biographies too many, I restarted studying math. Roughly at the same time, I started doing a bit of mathematics with my kids. Math with kids? Yeah, I know. It’s crazy. My neighbor Vera was appalled. My brother-in-law tried to convince me to teach the kids some business fundamentals instead. You know, his kids started developing business models at the ripe age of four.

Verena said no as politely as she could. She wanted Alfred as a teacher and a friend, not a lover ... Once, when she refused and he asked her to be specific as to why she found him physically unappealing, she dropped her guard and said that she didn’t like his hands and didn’t like him to touch her.