Archive for the 'Mathematics' Category

Nature by Numbers

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Make has an interesting short film that visualizes the relationship of mathematics to nature. Mostly it deals with the golden ratio, but the score is haunting and the visual stunning.
Make: Online : Nature by Numbers: linking math to nature

Short course on graphics with R

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

A great introduction to producing various graph plots in R.
Revolutions: Video: Hadley Wickham gives a short course on graphics with R

Computing Your Skill

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Jeff Moser has a great post up about computing skill levels using various different mathematical models. It’s a long one, but he explains everything you need to know along the way. Really tremendous work.
Moserware: Computing Your Skill

Mandelbulb

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

I must admit I’ve been a bit lax in posting one of the more interesting new pieces of Mathematics that has come around. I’ve enjoyed fractals for a long time and some of my first programs where of Sierpinski’s triangle, and the Mandelbrot. This has been saturating the interwebs, so I was reluctant [...]

Calculus

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

I’ve started a page to aggregate the resources that I’ve been using as a distance learning Mathematics student. I’ve tried to talk objectively about these topics and how they’ve helped and what they provide. Please leave comments here if you know of other resources, or have any opinions about those services.
Calculus

Everyone has an inner n-rd.