The Chalk and the Airplane

  There is no emperor distributing boons for the mathematicians of today.

There is also a subtle fatalistic fallacy at play in the author’s claims: “Progress is inevitable. This is progress. Therefore this is inevitable.”

But this doesn’t follow. We may reject this instance of progress, and allow the inevitability of progress to furnish us with another option.

Lol. I read that title as "Cholk and the Airplane". Cholks are the little wedges of wood/plastic, or bits of rope, put at the wheels of parked aircraft to stop them rolling away.

(Rope cholks are more cool because you can throw them as a wheel from a distance rather than climb under a wing.)