• 13 surprising Fibonacci appearances

    Updated: 2011-06-28 06:12:54
    Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos 13 surprising Fibonacci appearances June 27th , 2011 by Sol One of my great Math heroes , James Tanton , has written a great essay that provides thirteen examples of the Fibonacci sequence appearing in strange and unexpected . places I have YouTube videos presenting some surprising appearances of the Fibonacci numbers and I’ve been tweeting little puzzlers about the Fibonacci numbers for some time . Here , at long last , is my list of Fibonacci results , and a clever way to prove them all . Some of these puzzlers are classic , some are new to the world . 8221 If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed Post a Comment Name E-mail will not be published Website Notify me

  • Review: The Big Questions: Mathematics

    Updated: 2011-06-28 01:28:16
    : : Wild About Math Making Math fun and accessible Home About Articles Math contest problem links Videos Review : The Big Questions : Mathematics June 28th , 2011 by Sol What motivates the study of mathematics Pure Math and recreational Math may not seem to have any connection to our physical world although they sometimes do but much of what we study was once motivated by the need to solve some practical problem . The longer I serve in the role of Math communicator the more important I feel it to be to connect people , mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike , with the stories behind the concepts and calculations . Storytelling is a powerful way to help people to relate to the experience of being a mathematician and thinking like a mathematician . Plus , most of us love stories , if

  • What’s new in MATLAB 2011a?

    Updated: 2011-06-16 17:36:32
    Every time there is a new MATLAB release I take a look to see which new features interest me the most and share them with the world.  If you find this article interesting then you may also enjoy similar articles on 2010b and 2010a. Simpler random number control MATLAB 2011a introduces the function rng which allows you [...]

  • Labview 2010 (Fall edition) on 64bit Ubuntu Linux

    Updated: 2011-06-15 17:04:18
    I needed to install Labview 2010 onto a Ubuntu Linux machine but when I inserted the DVD nothing happened.  So, I tried to manually mount it from the command line in the usual way but it didn’t work. It turns out that the DVD isn’t formatted as iso9660 but as hfsplus. The following [...]

  • My Latex is not working

    Updated: 2011-06-15 10:08:08
    I have to apologize to those of you that use my script to render latex symbols in their blog. My website was down and then the hosting company of my site move me to another server. I didn’t remember to put everything back as it was. So the location of the script was changing. Now [...]

  • MATLAB 2011a Installation on Linux – mount permission issues

    Updated: 2011-06-13 15:38:12
    Walking Randomly Because it’s more fun than getting there in a straight . line Home About Me Site Highlights PyNAG Contact Me Youdao Xian Guo Zhua Xia Google My Yahoo newsgator Bloglines iNezha MATLAB 2011a Installation on Linux mount permission issues June 13th , 2011 Categories : Linux matlab Tags : When installing MATLAB 2011a on Linux you may encounter a huge error message than begins with Preparing installation files Installing Exception in thread main com.google.inject.ProvisionException : Guice provision errors : 1 Error in custom provider , java.lang.RuntimeException : java.lang.reflect.Invoc ationTargetException at com.mathworks.wizard.WizardModule.provideDisplayProperties(WizardModule.jav a:61 while locating com.mathworks.instutil.DisplayProperties at

  • Academic Math Software: Commercial or Open Source?

    Updated: 2011-06-06 22:30:38
    Should academic mathematical software (for both teaching and research) be open source, commercial or a mixture of both?  Personally I feel that a mixture is the best way to go which is why I am equally at home with either Mathematica or Sage, MATLAB or Scilab, GSL or NAG and so on.  Others, however, have [...]

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