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Mathematical emotions
I made my first-ever B in calculus. This shocks some people, especially when they find out that I have a degree in math and when they find out just how much I like the subject. We can blame derivatives. Derivatives, … Continue reading
God’s number is 20 and an algebra lesson
If you’ve ever played with a Rubik’s cube, you may have experienced frustration or excitement while trying to solve it. I know I have. You may not know that the Rubik’s cube forms a group–that is, a set with a … Continue reading
Math busking
I’ve seen many street performers in my time, mainly musicians and dancers. Take, for example, this accordion player I saw while in France two years ago. Now replace that accordion player with someone performing math tricks. Yes, math tricks. This … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo’s history and the function of a search term
As I’ve mentioned before, researching the culture of NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy for Wikiwrimo is hard. Really hard. Blame the lack of Wayback Machine in recent years, blame the lack of site and forum archives in 2002 and 2004 and … Continue reading
The decimal makes all the difference
I’ve done a lot of math in my time and endured a lot of comments from people who not only aren’t great at math but who, whether intentionally or not, make obvious mathematical mistakes. Today at a Wendy’s drive-through I … Continue reading
Math 55
Thanks to a love of math and being an advanced special snowflake, I’ve taken a lot of math classes in my time, and I can expect to take a lot more if I go to grad school. Most of my … Continue reading
Ada Lovelace Day 2010: ASC’s math majors
I majored in math in school, and my college’s math department has a site devoted to female mathematicians. Mathematicians from Sophie Germaine to Helen Abbot Merrill (the mathematician who popped up when I opened the page) to Ada Lovelace (the … Continue reading
More on big numbers
Yesterday I talked a little about big numbers. Today Paste Magazine discusses what you can buy with Avatar’s earnings. I don’t know about you, but I’ll pass on the triple grande vanilla soy latte. Bring on the space expeditions!
How big is big?
We don’t really stop to think of how big numbers are. Million dollar budget cuts. Trillions of dollars to implement a new program. How much is that? I’ve never had anywhere near a million dollars, much less a trillion, and … Continue reading
Math in photography
One of my friends sent me a link via Twitter this morning said it reminded her of me. The link in question showed math in photography, complete with equations. I know I’m not the only one guilty of tracing functions … Continue reading