Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The Manga Guide to Statistics is a cartoon book in the same style as the publisher's Manga Guide to Calculus, which I reviewed a while back. It's been close to thirty years since I studied statistics (in High School) and reading this book brought back memories.
For the same reasons ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
The March/April 2009 issue of the Stanford Magazine had this delightful letter to the editor.
GOLDEN RULES
The article on Tom Wyman and his slide rule collection (“Calculating Collector,” Red All Over, January/February) takes me back to 1972, when Hewlett Packard introduced the HP-35, its first pocket scientific calculator, priced at $395. ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
My brother shared this puzzle with me this morning. He heard it on the radio but no solution was offered. Neither of us know what the answer is so I'm looking forward to one of you posting the answer in the comments. Here's the puzzle:
Bob and Alice are both millionaires. ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
"Nonplus" is not a particularly common English word so I looked it up on dictionary.com.
–verb (used with object)
1. to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
–noun
2. a state of utter perplexity.
"Nonplussed" is a book full of perplexing facts, and solid Math to explain the perplexities. In other words, this book is about ...
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