Category Archives: mathematics
Pi
We published a new video lecture. Celebrating Pi day. 3/14/2010 http://www.isallaboutmath.com/pi.aspx
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Video Lectures.
This is a wonderful resource with lots of video lectures in science and mathematics http://videolectures.net/ http://videolectures.net/Top/Mathematics/
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Free math books.
Follow this link for a list of free math books on the web http://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html
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Producing a simple 3d Animation with Mathematica 7.0 running in parallel on four kernels.
This is an advance on something I am currently working for www.isallaboutmath.com I need to produce some Spheres in 3d rotating in space so I figure since I have Mathematica 7.0 and it produces very good 3d images I should … Continue reading
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics.
Princeton University Press just published the Princeton Companion to Mathematics. I learned about this book while I was reading a blog post on Timothy Gower’s first blog post. I have read quite a bit and I think is a wonderful book. While … Continue reading
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One easy problem and One not so easy problem.
A few post ago we used Mathematica to draw the altitudes of an arbitrary triangle of given coordinates. Now we are solving these other two problems The first figure the red lines represent the medians and on the second figure … Continue reading
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Pascal’s triangle and a Phun computer.
I found this wonderful program called Phun and boy is it fun! Phun is a Physics engine simulator. The creator Emil Ernerfeldt calls it “the 2D physics sandbox”. Of course I had to try it and and I came up … Continue reading
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Triangular Numbers (Part III)
Going back once more to the original problem of finding a formula to compute the triangular number. Triangular numbers suggest by their name the idea of geometry and it should be interesting to try apply some geometric reasoning to solve … Continue reading
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