Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mathematics. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2025

Brilliant Tutorials in Mathematics and Computer Programming

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The name is the attractor. I certainly want to be brilliant, if only in my own estimation though not the world’s. About 272 days ago, we bot...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Check the Math

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I took Sociology 304 Research Methods in the spring of 2007. The professor was Young S. Kim. We were assigned to review two research papers ...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Jim Simons and the Quants

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Being centered on mathematicians, this book was not exciting, but it was interesting. James Harris “Jim” Simons (1938-2024) earned his docto...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Footnotes on Number Theory

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I love to watch the odometer. It is not always convenient to stop and take a picture.   186285 miles were 1 Light Second Kaprekar’s Constant...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Celestial Mechanics

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I first got interested in celestial mechanics in 1978. I enrolled in three independent study classes at two schools, New Mexico State Univer...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Birth of a Theorem by Cédric Villani

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I gave up after 30 pages. The difficult mathematics was the largest but not the only barrier.    Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adv...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

A Simple Truth

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A picture is worth a thousand words, so I will not say much. I just thought that it is interesting that when something is true, it can be de...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Number Theory as an Adventure

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Number theory can be taught to children. It all begins with integers. First year algebra (at least) is required to prove these conjectures....