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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Pascal's triangle is a very simple thing to construct, yet it has a tremendous amount of depth to it. Also, Pascal's triangle has a huge number of interesting patterns in it. If you're not familiar with Pascal's triangle then read this background article at Wikipedia and then try your hand ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I know that this blog is doing really well when I'm attracting some very high caliber comments, many of which deserve their own posts to address.
Here are some comments worthy of mention:
1. Efrique made the connection between nomograms and the odd way a parabola can be used to perform multiplication ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
In a twist on reminiscing on old popular posts from the previous year I present some of my early posts that I thought were particularly interesting but you didn't. I like to believe that's because not many of you knew about this blog when I started it October 6th.
Just think ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Professor Robin Wilson of Gresham College has delivered a number of outstanding lectures, mostly about historical mathematical subjects, that are available from the College's web-site. The lectures are viewable by Real Player and there are transcriptions in PDF format and lecture notes available. The lectures I've watched are a half ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
A few days ago I invited everyone in the Math blog community to share their most popular posts of 2007 and reminisce a bit. This morning I'm touring the Math blogs to see who has publicly reminisced and/or set intentions for this new year. Here's what I found:
Jonathan over at ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Blogged.com just added a Math Blog Directory. I never heard of blogged.com before.
Anyway, there are 26 Math blogs listed as of this writing although not every single one is a Math blog. There are even some Math blogs I hadn't heard of that I'm going to check out.
Will it make ...
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
I hope everyone had a great Christmas.
I'm stealing this great idea from Problogger.
Come join a virtual New Year's Eve party right here and reminisce a little about 2007. Leave a comment with this message stating what your most popular post was, using any criteria you desire. It could be the ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Those of you who have read my about page know that I spent 25 years in high tech. A couple of months ago I left the company my brother founded, Deep Web Technologies, to dedicate myself to sharing my passion about Math and to learning about Internet entrepreneurship. This journey ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
On December 3rd SAGE was released. Per the SAGE home page:
"Use SAGE for studying a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and exact linear algebra."
SAGE is a large collection of libraries (chunks of ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Here's the You Tube Video that follows up Mathcast #2: Quick multiplication of two 2-digit numbers. The algebra of cross-multiplication explains how this method is derived.
If you enjoy this video check out all of the Wild About Math! mathcasts.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=rvueQ3HU2X8[/youtube]
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