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Diagrams!
Over the past few years I’ve written quite a few posts with images generated by a library I (now along with many others) wrote. Most famously, this is how I created those factorization diagrams. But I’ve used it in many … Continue reading
New “Chaos” videos from the makers of “Dimensions”
I just got an email from Jos Leys, one of the creators of the Dimensions video series (which I wrote about previously), announcing that they have released another video series, this time about Chaos, at http://www.chaos-math.org/en. I haven’t had a … Continue reading
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
Keith Devlin is going to be offering another instance of his online course, Introduction to Mathematical Thinking, starting on March 4. The idea is to serve as a bridge between high school mathematics— which focuses on solving specific types of … Continue reading
A computer-checked proof of the odd order theorem
Big news: a proof of the Feit-Thompson Theorem (also known as the “odd order theorem”) has been completely formalized and verified by a computer, using the Coq proof assistant! Wait, what? Huh? you’re probably thinking. Well, let me unpack that … Continue reading
More factorization diagrams
My post on factorization diagrams from a month ago turned out to be (unexpectedly) quite popular! I got ten times as many hits as usual the day it was published, and since then quite a few other people have created … Continue reading
Posted in arithmetic, links, pictures, primes, programming, recursion
Tagged diagrams, factorization, Haskell
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Making a computer out of… dominoes?
When I mentioned carrying out computational processes with a room full of dominoes, I wasn’t kidding. Matt Parker is planning to build a domino computer at the Manchester Science Festival at the end of the month. The Manchester Science Festival … Continue reading
Posted in computation, links, video
Tagged computer, domino, festival, Manchester, Matt Parker, science
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CoM and Relatively Prime
A couple things to draw your attention to: The 90th Carnival of Mathematics is up over at Walking Randomly. There’s quite a lot of cool stuff in this edition, go check it out! The first episode of Relatively Prime is … Continue reading
Introduction to Mathematical Thinking with Keith Devlin
I just learned from Denise at Let’s Play Math! that Keith Devlin is going to be teaching a course on Coursera called Introduction to Mathematical Thinking. It’s free and open to anyone with only a background in high school math. … Continue reading
Posted in links, teaching
Tagged Coursera, free, Keith Devlin, mathematical thinking, online
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Searchable tiling database
Just a link today—check out this awesome tiling database! It’s got tons of beautiful plane tilings (with information and further reading about each one) and many ways to search through the database. It’s a great way to find examples of … Continue reading
Picture this
Picture this! is a very cool interactive thingy, made by Jason Davies, intended to get students (or anyone, really) thinking about some interesting math. Go play around with it and see if you can answer any of the listed questions … Continue reading
Posted in challenges, links, pattern, pictures
Tagged interactive, picture, rectangles, this
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