Friday math movie: Mandelbox trip
Updated: 2010-09-30 18:39:51
Here's an interesting trip through a 3-Dmathematical art space.
Managing a statistical analysis project – guidelines and best practices
Updated: 2010-09-30 17:03:12In the past two years, a growing community of R users (and statisticians in general) have been participating in two major Question-and-Answer websites: The R tag page on Stackoverflow, and Stat over flow (which will soon move to a new domain, no worries, I’ll write about it once it happens) In that time, several long (and fascinating) discussion threads where started, reflecting on tips and best practices for managing a statistical analysis project. They are: “Workflow for statistical analysis and report writing” [...]Giveaway: One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With MATH!
Updated: 2010-09-29 15:49:17: : Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Giveaway : One Minute Mysteries : 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With MATH September 29th , 2010 by Sol Science , Naturally is giving away a copy of 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With MATH to one lucky person in the U.S . This is a great book for kids that I reviewed some months ago . To be in the running for this book , leave a comment with your email in the comment form telling why you’d like the book . When I get 20 comments I’ll close comments for this post , I’ll have Random.org pick a random comment , I’ll pass your email address to the publisher , and they’ll ship you the book . Remember , you must be in the . U.S Good . luck If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to myBest source code comment ever?
Updated: 2010-09-24 11:22:09One of my friends on facebook posted the following source code comment which I am sorely tempted to use in some future projects. // // Dear maintainer: // // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, // please increment the following counter as a warning // to the next guy: // // [...]A faster version of MATLAB’s fsolve using the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB
Updated: 2010-09-21 19:27:27Part of my job at the University of Manchester is to help researchers improve their code in systems such as Mathematica, MATLAB, NAG and so on. One of the most common questions I get asked is ‘Can you make this go any faster please?’ and it always makes my day if I manage to do [...]Free copy of Old Dogs, New Math to a lucky reader
Updated: 2010-09-20 20:04:18, Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Free copy of Old Dogs , New Math to a lucky reader September 20th , 2010 by Sol Update 9 24 : Maria won the copy of the book . Stay tuned for more book giveaways . I just received this email from a : publisher Dear Sol , Lederman I’m writing from The Experiment , a nonfiction publisher in New York City . We’re just about to publish a new book for parents on math education—Old Dogs , New Math : Homework Help for Puzzled Parents , by Rob Eastaway and Mike Askew . We found your excellent math blog , and we thought that you might want to consider this new book for a review , for a reader giveaway , or otherwise for your . site Old Dogs , New Math is a timely new resource for parents who wouldLearning Styles — Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Updated: 2010-09-15 23:20:33In education there is a concept that students learn better if the information is presented to them in the “style” that best meshes with their own “learning style”. In other words, some students learn by hearing, others learn by seeing, others learn by hands-on experience, whatever… Is there any scientific evidence for this hypothesis? A [...]Which MATLAB toolboxes should be merged?
Updated: 2010-09-15 10:42:19A very welcome change in MATLAB 2010b is the merging of the splines and curve-fitting toolboxes to form one super-toolbox that does both splines AND curve-fitting in a product that’s simply called The Curve Fitting Toolbox. The separate curve-fitting and splines toolboxes were always a bugbear for me and many of my equivalents in other [...]Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival #3 posted
Updated: 2010-09-14 04:07:23The Mathematics and Multimedia Blog Carnival #3 has been posted. Starting next months the Carnival will travel. I’ll be hosting #4 (a number that’s easy to say something about.) Please submit your articles using the official form. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival #3 posted", url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2010/09/13/mathematics-and-multimedia-carnival-3-posted/" });A (sadly) brief look at GP GPU Computing in MATLAB 2010b
Updated: 2010-09-13 21:26:29One of the new features in MATLAB 2010b that’s getting me very excited is the CUDA based GP-GPU (General Purpose computation on Graphical Processing Units) integration that’s become available in the Parallel Computing Toolbox. As soon as I had MATLAB 2010b installed on my CUDA capable laptop (Dell XPS M1330 with a GeForce 8400M [...]Princeton University Press giving away a copy of “Calculus Lifesaver”
Updated: 2010-09-13 18:37:06Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Princeton University Press giving away a copy of Calculus Lifesaver” September 13th , 2010 by Sol I just received this email from my publicity contact at Princeton University Press and thought it worth passing . on This week , Princeton University Press is giving away a copy of Adrian Banner’s Calculus Lifesaver to one of our facebook fans or twitter followers . I thought you might want to share news of this with your readers , friends , colleagues , and or students . The Calculus Lifesaver and the wonderful videos of Banner’s lectures , links below has helped thousands of college students ace calculus . The best way I’ve heard this book described is that it is not a book about how to doMy recent blog articles at Equalis
Updated: 2010-09-12 14:27:47I’ve been blogging about the Math blogosphere at Equalis. Here are my three most recent posts: 9/9 9/2 8/26 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "My recent blog articles at Equalis", url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2010/09/12/my-recent-blog-articles-at-equalis/" });[MATH 198] Second lecture
Updated: 2010-09-09 02:57:08I've been maddeningly slow lately. With everything. Since last week Wednesday, the second lecture is up on the Haskell wiki.