Charles Dickens, who inspired the name for “Pip,” the combined alter ego of bloggers Dick Lipton and Ken Regan.
Lipton and Regan write mainly about computer science, mathematics, and the history of those subjects, but they always put people first. Most posts start with a brief bio sketch of the person or people whose research they [...]
Monthly archives for June, 2014
The Human Side of Computer Science
Charles Dickens, who inspired the name for “Pip,” the combined alter ego of bloggers Dick Lipton and Ken Regan.
Lipton and Regan write mainly about computer science, mathematics, and the history of those subjects, but they always put people first. Most posts start with a brief bio sketch of the person or people whose research they [...]
Really Big Numbers (Book Review)
Really Big Numbers by Richard Schwartz will be published by the American Mathematical Society on July 3, 2014.
“Now and then we pluck numbers from the blur…numbers which have no names except the ones we might now give them…souvenirs from alien, unknowable worlds.”
-Really Big Numbers by Richard Evan Schwartz
Read my review of Really Big Numb [...]
The Most Mathematically Perfect Day o...
The Paley graph of order 9 is a perfect graph, making it an appropriate object of veneration and study on June 28, a perfect day. Image: David Eppstein, via Wikimedia commons.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, today is a perfect day. A perfect number is a number that is the sum of its factors besides itself, and 6 (1+2+3) and 28 (1+2+4+7+14) [...]
2,4,6,8, What Does Not Associate?
On associativity, unary division, and silly facebook math problems.
How to Make “e-1″ Salad D...
Fibonacci lemonade. Image: Andrea Hawksley.
What does math taste like? Andrea Hawksley recently posted a recipe for Fibonacci lemonade, a drink that is inspired by the famous Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8, and so on. It is a thing of beauty to behold, and as you drink it, you actually taste successive approximations of the golden ratio due [...]
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Fibo...
Mathematical origami by Andrea Hawksley.
Andrea Hawksley has a fun math blog! I wrote about it at the AMS Blog on Math Blogs. Check it out!
How Not to Be Wrong (Book Review)
How Not to Be Wrong, the first popular math book by University of Wisconsin-Madison math professor Jordan Ellenberg, just hit the shelves. In addition to a Ph.D. in math, Ellenberg has an MFA in creative writing and has been writing about math for popular audiences for several years. Unsurprisingly, the book is witty, compelling, and just pla [...]
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