The nicest math book I own...
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Antonio Cangiano in
Suggested Reading on
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...
13 Useful Math Cheat Sheets...
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Antonio Cangiano in
Applied Math, Math Education, Software, Tutorial on
09 20th, 2008 |
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Cheat sheets can be very useful and make for great posters around your room. The following is a collection of 13 cheat sheets for several mathematical topics and programs:
General Math Cheat Sheet (iPaper and other formats)
Elementary Algebra Cheat Sheet (PDF)
Trigonometry Cheat Sheet (PDF)
Calculus Cheat...
Getting started with gnuplot...
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Antonio Cangiano in
Applied Math, Software, Suggested Reading, Tutorial on
06 8th, 2008 |
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gnuplot is an excellent scientific package for visualizing data and plotting functions. Despite its name, it has nothing to do with the GNU project, even though it’s Open Source and entirely free. This tool is very handy whenever you need to produce production quality graphics from a given data-set (or...
That’s impossible!...
Imagine a rope that was just long enough to wrap tightly around the equator of a perfectly spherical earth. Now imagine that the length of that rope is increased by one meter and again wrapped around the earth, supported in a regular way, so as to form an annulus. Doing things in this way will form a certain...
On the Importance of Mathematics...
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Antonio Cangiano in
Math Education on
03 31st, 2008 |
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Mathematics is the queen of science and the language of nature. Its importance should be clear to any reasonable person. It is easy however to diminish the value of certain areas of research because they’re currently thought as having little practical use. Evolutionary needs brought our mind to prefer...
An accessible Calculus book and Benjamin...
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Antonio Cangiano in
Suggested Reading on
03 21st, 2008 |
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It has been a while since my last book recommendation. I’ll take the opportunity of the Easter longer weekend to write about two books that were recently released and I just finished reading. The first one is an atypical Calculus book, while the second one is a popular mathematics title which is...
Getting Math help in realtime...
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Antonio Cangiano in
Math Websites on
01 23rd, 2008 |
5 Comments
Chances are that in the process of learning (or re-learning) mathematical concepts you will often find yourself in need of some clarification. That’s normal and nothing to be ashamed of. It actually means that you are absorbing something new and challenging. This can become an issue, particularly if...
Where Math-Blog is headed...
Posted by
Antonio Cangiano in
Math Education on
12 4th, 2007 |
5 Comments
Since I began this blog, and from the time when the first of its posts started to grow in popularity, I’ve simultaneously received numerous emails from people who are deeply interested in math. If we exclude entirely nonsensical and almost comical rants from folks whose sanity is, at best,...
Rejecta Mathematica...
Tired of getting shot down when submitting mathematical articles to peer reviewed journals? Rejecta Mathematica comes to the rescue. This new site, which currently has a call for papers, is self-described as follows:
Rejecta Mathematica is a new, open access, online journal that publishes only papers that...
I’m reading a fantastic mathematic...
Posted by
Antonio Cangiano in
Suggested Reading on
10 18th, 2007 |
5 Comments
While I’m very busy at work and in my daily life, I’ve managed to start reading a new mathematical novel. It’s called A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel and is published by the Princeton University Press. I’ve read only a few chapters but I must say that I’m really...
