Some extra-curricular reading for you all

A comment (thank you Anonymous) on my previous post on counting included this link to an entry on the Britannica Blog: Why Math Geeks (Especially Immigrant Geeks) Rule. It's an interesting read.

I think I'm finished moving so I'll get back to all this stuff this weekend. :-)

This is for Rave!

Back in October Rave asked me in the comments to this post what an equation was. I had no idea. But tonight an answer was provided. So Rave, go read the comments and you will have your answer. *grin*

A love story

Check out this YouTube video link from Gooseania - To the vector belong the spoils - the love story between a dot and a line. BTW - this is a book you can buy. I read it several years ago.

New math???

From Ars Mathematica - Maharishi Mathematics.

Put down your drink and your food, then follow the link to the course listings. I'm LMAO!

Kind of Star Trekkie (?)

Once a week I receive the Science News e-Letter - brief blurbs on interesting stuff with links to the full articles. This week's featured articles for physics has the following entry.

Warming Up to Criticality: Quantum change, one bubble at a time Physicists can now observe matter as it gradually turns into a Bose-Einstein condensate--the exotic state of matter that displays quantum behavior at macroscopic scales. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070317/fob3.asp

I don't have the background to understand anything that is more in depth than this article, but isn't it cool? I wonder what the mathematics that describes this system looks like?

Friday Miscellany

Two links to investigate.

The first from my blogless friend Sue. She calls it "Feeding the Dark Side". I call it a really neat combination of math, crochet, and art. So, go here and check it out.

The second from blog mama, Teresa is called Romantic Math. The section starts with this quotation - "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in this world for ugly mathematics." (G. H. Hardy) If nothing else it's an interesting use of functions. *grin*

Added a couple more math blogs

I realized during the fall semester when I took the complex numbers course just how much I miss doing mathematics every day. But it's difficult when you're sitting alone at home or, even worse sitting at a mind numbingly boring job, to get motivated. I'm thinking that if I go read math blogs regularly, that may get me off my ass. We'll see.

Headache inducing

Reading job ads and trying to figure out how to rewrite my resume for a specific job.

With all this job stuff I don't get to do the really fun things like go over to the MIT site and check out their Open Courseware. There are some really fun math courses there.