Natural Blogarithms

The information age is sometimes as much a curse as it can be a blessing. I am not sure exactly how frustrated I should be when it comes to a situation that arose as I left one of my classes this afternoon. I’ll spare many of the details but suffice to say, a [...]

The Wobbly Table Theorem
There’s a theorem I have recently come across that is much along the same lines as the Pancake Theorem or the Ham Sandwich Theorem. It’s called the Wobbly Table Theorem (by some). Basically it states that if you’re at a four legged table that does rest evenly on the floor [...]

“Canadians eat enough Smarties each year to circle the Earth 350 times.”
So says the company Nestlé. They have also claimed that Canadians eat about 4 billion Smarties each year.
Now, if both those statements are true then, we have a problem. Considering that Earth is 24,901.55 miles about the equator, then for these [...]

This one’s a new one for me. It is definitely intuitive but I would have never thought of name for it!
You cannot comb a hairy ball.
The Hairy Ball Theorem states that if you take a ball that is evenly covered with hairs, no matter how you comb the ball, there must be a part [...]

Click on the image above to play a video, from Multitouch Research at NYU. HT: Gaussian Nodes
So now that they’ve got a “Star Trek”-like interface, I’m ready for the Holodeck and the replicators!

I’ll be honest. I don’t like to watch figure skating. Nevertheless, thanks to a blogger at Substandard Analysis, I have a newfound interest in watching or at least paying some attention to the results in Torino.
In an effort of establishing a “fair” judging system, the scoring system for figure skating has [...]

From think again!
(I’ll be passing this on to my College Algebra students who just completed their Rational Functions chapter.)
What’s the difference?
In the Olympic games in Munich in 1972 the gold medal on 400 m medley went to the Swedish swimmer Gunnar Larsson. Tim McKee got silver. Their respective times were 4 minutes 31.981 seconds and [...]

Did I ever tell anyone how much I love grading? No? There’s a reason why I haven’t. So, I like to know where my students stand but there comes a point that I begin to lose my patience. Recently, the world of downloadable music and playlists on my IPAQ has helped [...]

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Fascinating.
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