• Friday math movie: Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education

    Updated: 2010-10-31 14:35:01
    What math topic is most useful for people in their "real life"?

  • SAS vs Open Source

    Updated: 2010-10-29 19:43:55
    SAS CEO Jim Goodnight elicited guffaws from the audience during his keynote at JSM this year when he said "I have a problem with government using open source software". Now it seems Goodnight is at the center of another controversy related to open source, having dismissed the growth of open-source software for business intelligence in an interview with CBR online: Asked whether open source BI and data integration software from the likes of Jaspersoft, Pentaho and Talend is a growing threat, [Goodnight] said: "We haven't noticed that a lot. Most of our companies need industrial strength software that has been...

  • Wild About Math bloggers 10/22/10

    Updated: 2010-10-29 15:05:00
    Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Wild About Math bloggers 10 22 10 October 29th , 2010 by Sol Here’s my Wild About Math Bloggers post from last week . This week’s article is at Equalis I begin this week’s tour of the Math Blogosphere with news of the death of Benoit Mandelbrot the father of fractal geometry . Mandelbrot , in fact , coined the term fractal” in 1975. Rudy’s Blog has a nice article , with beautiful images : Remembering Benoit Mandelbrot The TED Blog comments on Mandelbrot’s . legacy Scientific American reports on Mandelbrot’s . passing Scientific American has republished a 1985 article on how simple computer programs could be used to view fractal pioneer Benoit Mandelbrot’s eponymous set . 8221 The Adventure

  • Integrating R with C++: Rcpp, RInside, and RProtobuf

    Updated: 2010-10-28 23:33:00
    Last week the R “intergrouplet” at Google invited Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois to come and give a Tech Talk about their joint work on Rcpp, RInside, and RProtoBuf. Dirk and Romain agreed and also let us share the video of their talk:We we...

  • Great paper folding video

    Updated: 2010-10-27 21:43:32
    Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Great paper folding video October 27th , 2010 by Sol If you’ve not seen the PBS movie Between the Folds you may want to check it out . It’s an outstanding video about the art of paper-folding and how artists and mathematicians are pushing the envelope of what’s possible with just a sheet of paper . You can stream the movie from Netflix if you have the service . You can buy the video from the producer or from Amazon If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed Post a Comment Name E-mail will not be published Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Click Here For RSS Feed Recent Posts Wild About Math bloggers 10 22 10 Great paper folding video The importance of

  • The importance of learning those formulas!

    Updated: 2010-10-26 14:54:50
    From XKCD: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The importance of learning those formulas!", url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2010/10/26/the-importance-of-learning-those-formulas/" });

  • Erno Rubik to receive Lifetime Science Education Achievement Award

    Updated: 2010-10-23 22:57:28
    From NPR: Professor Erno Rubik’s iconic puzzle, a simple, yet complex multicolored cube, took the world by storm in the 1980s and sold millions of copies. The inventor will receive a Lifetime Science Education Achievement Award from the USA Science & Engineering Festival this weekend. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Erno Rubik to receive Lifetime Science Education Achievement Award", url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2010/10/23/erno-rubik-to-receive-lifetime-science-education-achievement-award/" });

  • Recommended books for learning MATLAB

    Updated: 2010-10-22 11:30:16
    Because I spend so much time talking about and helping people with MATLAB, I often get asked to recommend a good MATLAB book. I actually find this a rather difficult question to answer because, contrary to what people seem to expect, I have a relatively small library of MATLAB books. However, one could argue the [...]

  • Reminder: submissions due for Carnival of Mathematics and Multimedia

    Updated: 2010-10-04 20:55:44
    : Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Reminder : submissions due for Carnival of Mathematics and Multimedia October 4th , 2010 by Sol Just a reminder that your submissions are due Friday October 8 for the next Carnival which I’ll be hosting the following Monday . More information about the Carnival is here Please submit your blog articles via the official submission form If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed Post a Comment Name E-mail will not be published Website Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Click Here For RSS Feed Recent Posts Wild About Math bloggers 10 22 10 Great paper folding video The importance of learning those formulas Erno Rubik to receive Lifetime Science Education

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