Welcome to the website of M. D. Taylor.  The site exists to share some of my writings (mainly science fiction and fantasy) and certain bits of mathematics.

I put things up on a very irregular schedule, namely whenever I complete a piece that I think worth sharing.  (Some people will think I am often deluded.  Some will think this piece is worth sharing but not that one.)

For those of you who are into mathematics, I offer the following:

A few years back, I had an article published (a bit unexpectedly on my part) in the journal Dependence Modeling.  The article goes by the forbidding title of Multivariate Measures of Concordance for Copulas and their Marginals and can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/demo-2016-0013 .  The article (and indeed the journal) has to do with how random variables can be related one to another.  If you click on the journal title above, you can see what Giovanni Puccetti the editor is up to.

On a subpage of the Math page, I have put up A Crash Course in Geometric Algebra and Geometric Calculus.  This is an experiment.  The notes run five chapters and are brief and superficial.

This is followed by a subpage announcing the publication of my book An Introduction to Geometric Algebra and Geometric Calculus which is a more serious look at these subjects.

I have taken down my e-book The Blue-Haired Shadow and Other Tales.  The hope is to add some stories to it and put it back up in the not-too-distant future.

There are a number of links on the Links page to local science fiction and fantasy groups, authors, and authors-in-the-making.  There is quite a bit of activity of that sort here in the Orlando area, though people who share these interests are often only hazily aware of one another.  This list is far from complete and will hopefully grow with time.

The page labelled Miscellany is intended to have links to short pieces, some fiction, some less so.

Oh, and you might check out the blog by my sister, Linda Matthews:  My Bright Shiny Penny.

Note:  This blog runs on WordPress.  The theme is Mon Cahier.   The background fractals were created by the Fractal Science Kit fractal generator at www.fractalsciencekit.com.