Archive for September 2010
Computation and the golden mean
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 8, 2010
This post is a slight variation on a theme of Cleve Moler, no rx founder of The MathWorks, from the first chapter of his book Experiments with MATLAB. Cleve uses MATLAB as the computational engine for his computational explorations. This makes sense because Cleve wrote the early versions of MATLAB to do numerical calculations, and […]
Kool math kids
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 6, 2010
I am writing this post as a result of a prompt, a nudge, from some Tweeps, who wrote: “Why does our country often portray math enthusiasts as uncool? Discuss” with a link to:Â “Why is it that other countries celebrate math and science while we often portray them as ‘uncool’?” This resonated with me because […]
