Natural Blogarithms

I just have to say that one of the things I have been most looking forward to teaching has been Differential Equations. Actually, I am particularly fond of Numerical Analysis but Wayland Baptist University does not offer that class as part of its regular program, even though I did have the opportunity [...]

Think numbers not dots!
Problem: (from eon)
A simple little puzzle. Suppose you are given two ordinary 6 sided dice. Is it possible to put the numbers 0-9 (with repetition) onto the faces of both dice, such that using both dice you can display all the days of the month i.e. 01 - 31 .

My Response:
Can’t [...]

Distributed computing enjoys prime success - ZDNet UK News
A Central Missouri State University team using more than 700 computers has found the largest prime number so far, a gargantuan 9,152,052-digit numeral
Wow! That’s about 1.3 million more digits than the last one found. There’s $100,000 in it for the first one to come up [...]

I am becoming a goal oriented person. That’s not been true my entire life but having just finished some major long term goals this year, I am now in a bit of a vacuum when it comes to life goals. I had a few big ones, such as finish my Ph.D., have a [...]

This may be a tad late for the season, but I found it quite interesting. Check out the full article.
The Mathematics of Christmas by Keith Devlin
I guess it was an early sign that I was heading for a career in mathematics that, when I was a young child, the run-up to Christmas always [...]

I doubt, with the holiday, that anyone noticed but the blog was down for the last few days. We left town to visit family and my wireless router, Linksys WRT54G, decided to spontaneously change my static IP setting. As a result, the dynamic DNS forwarding was going to a non-existent server. Yada [...]

I cannot take credit for this but found it downright hilarious. I hope it is appreciated.
There’ve been a lot of tropical storms/hurricanes this season–so many that they used up the standard names and had to begin using letters of the Greek alphabet as names. We’re up to Epsilon, now. The other day, an [...]

I always thought the idea of time capsules was fascinating. Although, I admit that I wonder what I could possibly leave myself or tell myself of the future that would be useful or interesting. However, if I turn the tables and ask myself what I’d like to hear from the past, just about [...]

Eventually or Frequently?
The two terms, “eventually” and “frequently,” stood out to me as having fairly interesting definitions when the came up some introductory courses in analysis and toplogy while I was in graduate school. Specifically, I am referring their use in the context of infinite sequences. Now to lay the foundation for the [...]