MTH 495 Constantelos
Monday, July 7, 2014
Review of "Gödel, Escher, Bach"
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"It seems to me that you may begin approaching Zen through any path you know—even if it completely antithetical to Zen. As you approach...
Review of "Radical Equations"
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I choose this book because of my interest in the Civil Rights movement, and it did not disappoint. Robert "Bob" Moses can truly cl...
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Deriving the Cubic Formula Part II: Solving a Depressed Cubic [communicating in math]
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Although we're continuing from our work last time, we'll start afresh (i.e., variables aren't going to retain their meanings fro...
Deriving the Cubic Formula Part I: Depressing the Cubic [communicating in math]
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I spent some time trying to come to grips with the derivation of the cubic formula. I was surprised to discover that all the algebra involve...
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Geodesics in taxicab geometry
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I was interested in the taxicab geometry from class, so I decided to examine one particular problem. Suppose you are on one corner of a city...
Thursday, July 3, 2014
More Desmos: Secants in polar
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I figured I'd try to graph some n -gons in polar. I remembered that I had once discovered that the secant function in polar is vertical ...
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