A panorama of Heidelberg. Image: Coolgarriv, via Flickr.
The first-ever Heidelberg Laureate Forum is taking place this week. It’s modeled after the decades-old Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, which bring together Nobel Laureates and young researchers for a conference on a particular topic. Mathematics and computer science are not repres [...]
Monthly archives for September, 2013
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum
A panorama of Heidelberg. Image: Coolgarriv, via Flickr.
The first-ever Heidelberg Laureate Forum is taking place this week. It’s modeled after the decades-old Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, which bring together Nobel Laureates and young researchers for a conference on a particular topic. Mathematics and computer science are not repres [...]
10 Secret Trig Functions Your Math Te...
A diagram with a unit circle and more trig functions than you can shake a stick at. (It’s well known that you can shake a stick at a maximum of 8 trig functions.) The familiar sine, cosine, and tangent are in red, blue, and, well, tan, respectively. The versine is in green next to the cosine, and the exsecant is in pink to the right of [...]
Mathematics+Motherhood: An Interview ...
Mathematician Constance Leidy and her daughter. Image: Thomas S. England.
On Roots of Unity, I hosted a guest post interview of Constance Leidy by Lillian Pierce. In it, Leidy talks about the challenges of being a single parent and how she has made motherhood and math both part of her life.
Complex Projective 4-Space
A visualization of the complex function (z/2)^7-1, with the 7 Antarcticas showing where the roots of the function are. Image: Adam P. Goucher.
Complex Projective 4-Space recently celebrated its first birthday, and I was surprised to learn it was that young. I’ve been reading since January or so, and I guess I just assumed it had been ar [...]
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