Monthly Archives: August 2012

Three new books

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Brent

A three-for-one today! Here are three books I wanted to mention to you, dear reader, for one reason or another. A Wealth of NumbersBenjamin Wardhaugh Princeton Press kindly sent me a review copy of this book. As an anthology of … Continue reading →

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Introduction to Mathematical Thinking with Keith Devlin

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Brent

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 →

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Visualizing nim-like games

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Brent

Inspired by the comments on this post, I’ve had some ideas brewing for a while—I’m just only now getting around to writing them up. The topic is visualizing winning strategies for "nim-like" games. What do I mean by that? By … Continue reading →

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Searchable tiling database

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Brent

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 →

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