An apology to my feed readers...
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08 7th, 2009 |
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This post is an apology to my feed readers. Due to a misconfiguration of my server, for a few hours, images in my feed were replaced with a message that suggested to “stop stealing content and bandwidth”. That message was intended to be seen on sites that steal my content/bandwidth, not in your...
Book Review: “Mathematicians: An O...
In my last blog entry, I mentioned several math books I’ve been reading lately. Over the weekend I wrapped up reading Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World, and wanted to take the opportunity to review it here.
Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World is a hardcover book of photos...
My mid-2009 math reading list...
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07 31st, 2009 |
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With summertime underway, I thought I would share a list of 12 mathematical books that I’ve been reading between the beginning of this year and now. Some of them are absolutely excellent titles, but I’d say that each of the books listed was interesting and worth recommending.
I bought some of...
Two Beautiful Mathematical Documentaries...
Two beautiful mathematical documentaries are “Fermat’s Last Theorem” and “Dangerous Knowledge”. Both take a popular science style approach to describing compelling and emotional stories about great mathematicians.
The first narrates the story of Andrew Wiles, who proved...
Rejecta Mathematica goes live...
We first mentioned Rejecta Mathematica almost two years ago. While it did take them a while, the site has finally gone live and they recently announced their inaugural issue, which contains papers that have been rejected by peer reviewed journals on mathematical sciences.
The most interesting feature of...
An almost convincing start for Wolfram A...
Wolfram Research finally launched Wolfram|Alpha, the much talked about “computational knowledge engine”. It’s unusual description is justified by the fact that we are not dealing with a search engine in the classic sense of the term, nor with the next Google.
At first glance we’re...
Happy National Pi Day!...
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03 14th, 2009 |
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Many math lovers and geeks alike celebrate “Pi Day” on March 14. In fact, when using the American style for dates where the month precedes the day, today is 3/14. The most committed among us will even go so far as to keep an eye on their watch or set an alarm to go off at the Pi Minute,...
A New Kind of Search...
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03 10th, 2009 |
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Seven years ago Stephen Wolfram published A New Kind of Science. I remember the hype surrounding this book. Journalists jumped at the chance to praise a heavy tome that was too complex for most of them to fully understand, but that shipped with an ambitious title and the implicit guarantee that comes from a...
Review of Math for Moms and Dads...
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03 6th, 2009 |
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Last weekend I had a chance to read Math for Moms and Dads, which I received from Kaplan as a review copy. This book aims to providing a friendly guide for parents of children ages ten and up, who are struggling with mathematics.
Many parents face the challenge of helping their children with math homework,...
The nicest math book I own...
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12 22nd, 2008 |
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I recently got a hold of what I consider to be the nicest mathematical book in my collection. As a matter of fact, it’s the nicest book I own, period – even though I posses bookshelves teaming with terrific titles on mathematics, science, programming, computer science, photography and so on. The...
