Here is the edition 7 embellished (normalized?) with my ImaginativeTM write-ups (quirks and PJs), the acumen for which I could blame no one in particular in my family. Enjoy your date with the Queen of Science…
We start with something that is perhaps no longer timely, but never untimely either. Talk about one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. Mark Dominus presents The Universe of Discourse : Happy birthday Leonhard Euler posted at The Universe of Discourse.
We move on to More knot coloring by John Armstrong that extends the concept of knot colorings to arbitrary involutory quandles. Wow a ma(w)thful!
While that mouth is agape, figure this out. Was it a Googol or a Google? Or is it simply a duotrigintillion? Maggie presents a good discussion of how to try to convey large numbers in Something-illion posted at Pandora’s Tea Room. A good discussion is continued in the comments section as well.
Mikael Johansson got interviewed by a german maths website about maths blogging, which he reports in the Interview with a blogger. As he writes in his email “The german mathematical community is currently slowly waking up and smelling the diesel smell from the passing bandwagon. :) ” The quote includes the smiley.
Readers will know nOnoscience loves Hamming (check out the spectra in the sidebar). Here is one more instant to lap up. An healthy mixture of Babylonian mathematics and modern functional programming algorithms from David Eppstein in his 11011110: The range-restricted Hamming problem posted at 0xDE.
Regarding your birthday, whether you are savvy with Hamming’s error correcting code or not, listen to Kalid Azad when he presents Understanding the Birthday Paradox posted at BetterExplained in which he explains the Birthday Paradox from statistics.
If you are now sure of your birthday, answer this: Is your age an integer or real? Or like an aged actor or Methuselah, you prefer it to be imaginary? Before you decide on it, check with Mark Dominus when he presents The Universe of Discourse : Your age as a fraction, again.
A new way to write numbers. That is what I figured when I first studied functional calculus from Roger Penrose’s popular book The Emperor’s New Mind. Well, Chris Ho-Stuart presents for this edition of the math carnival his post New improved number system! posted at Duo Quartuncia. He writes, “With practice, many manual calculations become easier; and as a teaching tool it can encourage students to think outside the box when it comes to our conventional decimal number system.” It is always exciting and mind-opening to think things that are taken for granted in a different way.
A quirky signature file of a geek (taken from this mother of signature list) reads thus
question = 0xFF; // optimized Hamlet
Got the drift? Check here for an explanation (thanks KV Mohan). Come back and appreciate Kiltak when he presents How Does the Binary System Work: An Introduction posted at [Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News.
Dave Marain presents ‘Rigor Mathis’ – A Calculus Paradox or… posted at MathNotations. It is a discussion of a common error made in calculus when students ignore infinite discontinuities on the interval. In short, in the Calculus highway, never drunk and derive!
Time for Puzzles: How many rectangles on a chess board? If you have solved that one then here is the dinner introduction by the equally puzzling jd2718 (coiner of both these puzzles). For an after dinner stroll ruminate over the Facebook job puzzles: Korn Shell by Jesse Farmer. It was targeted by Jesse “at intelligent laypeople, so no group theory background is needed. I think it also serves as a nice introduction to group theoretic concepts, particularly reasoning combinatorially about finite groups (here, the symmetric group).” I don’t think that should cause any indigestion for you.
The Curve of Earth is a self taught way by Michael Koppelman to come up with the measure of the distance of the horizon while a new, easy-to-use, Web 2.0 Wiki for Combinatorial and Recreational math topics is introduced by John Kemeny in his post Combinational Mathematics = Combinatorial + Recreational.
Penultimately, Mark Dominus reappears with The Universe of Discourse : Degrees of algebraic numbers. No recourse. Enjoy.
And we end this edition with a post that is slightly older but introduces the concept of Quines nicely while equally shares the excitement of understanding and enjoying mathematics and computers . Read Quines of the World Unite!, the unadulterated joy as experienced and given to us by KV Mohan at Veni Vidi Vetti. (Vetti in Tamil means jobless).
The next edition of Carnival of Mathematics will be hosted at Geomblog on 2007/5/18 (submission instructions here). If you prefer it
That concludes this edition. Beat that drum; let us hear those Bessel functions.
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The Geomblog // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
Read all about it. I’ll be hosting the next one, so if you have a submission you’d like to be publicized, send it to sureshv REMOVE at THIS gmail AND dot THIS com. Or, you can submit it at the master blog carnival site
Duae Quartunciae // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
seems to be a lost art, so the force of this demonstration is somewhat diluted. The multiplication tableaux remain an intriguing exercise. [IMG ] Update. This post is part of the carnival of mathematics. Check out what other math bloggers are doing at Carnival of Mathematics Edition #7, hosted by nonoscience.
lolife // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
Carnival of Mathematics Edition #7 The 7th edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is upon us, once again including an entry by yours truly on the Curve of the Earth. Posted by lolife at 01:41 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Grey Matters // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
7th Carnival of Mathematics
The Art of Problem Solving // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
Carnival of Mathematics
The Unapologetic Mathematician // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
7th Carnival of Mathematics
0xDE // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
The seventh carnival of mathematics
Staring At Empty Pages // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
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Ars Mathematica // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
Carnival of Mathematics
metamerist // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
graduate thinking he could be as smart or rich as billg if he could only manage to be as rude.” I have very bright friends who were seriously put off by Microsoft interviews–so much so that they walked out of interviews or rejected offers. From Carnival of Mathematics #7, one of the best but geekiest .sigs I’ve seen in a long time: question = 0xFF; // optimized Hamlet Warning: If it makes no sense, experience with bit-tiddling C code may be a prerequisite. Methods for working with highly dimensional data are an area
Lets play math! // July 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
and take advantage of some Southern Hospitality. As always, the carnival features a variety of posts on family and education, from preschool to college. Other blog carnivals worth your visit: 118th Carnival of Education 7th Carnival of Mathematics Site Search Tags: education, homeschooling, blogging, carnivals
Michi’s blog » Blog Archive » 7th Carnival of Mathematics // May 4, 2007 at 11:48 pm |
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Jesse // May 4, 2007 at 11:53 pm |
Thanks for the link! But thanks more for continuing the Carnival of Mathematics. After leaving school I don’t get much occasion to read good math, so it’s nice to get a big collection of it in once place.
Cheers!
Carnival of Mathematics | 20bits // May 5, 2007 at 12:08 am |
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Suresh // May 5, 2007 at 1:06 am |
Hi, thanks for hosting the carnival. Can you augment your forward pointer to the next hosting with this link:
http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/7th-carnival-of-mathematics-is-out.html
it contains instructions on how to submit.
thanks !
Kalid // May 5, 2007 at 1:25 am |
Thanks for putting this together! It’s great to discover other blogs talking about these topics in math.
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