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The CATs of mathematics
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: November 2, 2013
Mathematics has numerous cats. For instance, there’s: Catalan numbers, which appear all over the place in counting situations. The Catalan constant Category theory The Catenary curve The Catenoid surface A Catalan surface Catastrophe theory But here’s a Cat that will never appear in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics: The totally pissed Cat: Â Yeah, I’m looking at […]
Why Jared and Brittany will never be good at math.2
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: September 19, 2013
Jared was pleased how easy algebra was. He thought it might be hard, but he was finding it much easier than he had imagined. “Hey, Brittany, look at this,” he said. “How simple is this?” Brittany looked at Jared’s work on the problem of calculating how far the point is from the origin of the […]
