Natural Blogarithms

Near the middle of the 20th century, Nicolas Bourbaki published several mathematics texts in areas such as Set Theory, Algebra, Topology, Functions of a Real Variable, etc. These texts had a profound impact on the mathematical landscape of the day and their affect is felt to this day. Many of the readers of [...]

I imagine everyone’s received an email similar to the one that I got today: Prayer Petition, DR. DOBSON’S PLEA FOR ACTION. You can look here for more details on this email “urban legend”: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/fcc.asp
Anyway, the part that bugs me the most, and what I’ve seen on several such emails, is the request at the end [...]

KleinFour.com
I have been a fan of this musical group since I learned about them some 2 years ago. I’ve seen a flurry of content regarding them come out over the web in the last month or so, so I must jump on the bandwagon.
The first song I listened to was the Finite Simple Group [...]

Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a monkey?
A: |elephant| |monkey| sin

Q: What do you get when you cross an mountain climber with a Volkswagen?
A: You can’t cross them since a mountain climber is a scaler.
[groan . . .]

The Fray
Quote by Isaac Slade, The Fray’s pianist, lead vocalist and songwriter:
If you’re a painter, paint, but you don’t have to have Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
I’m a fan.
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When teaching limits of sequences, I often use the phrase that some part of the general term “blows up”. I typically use it to indicate that it is going to infinity. For example, in the statement that , I’d say that the denominator of the fraction blows up and causes the entire fraction to [...]

Three guys in a hotel call room service, place an order for two large pizzas. The delivery boy brings them up with a bill for exactly $30.00. Each guy gives him a $10.00 bill, and he leaves. That’s fact! When he hands the $30.00 to the cashier, he is told a mistake was made. The [...]

You may have noticed this but there are some changes in the works here at my blog. If you experience some problems such as broken links, I apologize.
Although it was fun while it lasted, I decided that maintaining my own server with my limited knowledge of such things was just something I didn’t have [...]

Now, I imagine that there are at least a few readers out there that are fans of the Numb3rs television series. For those of you that are not, why not? It’s an excellent series with great story lines. And, of course, best of all, you get suspense, drama, and applications [...]

UPDATE: (4:54pm, November 6, 2006) Here’s the letter I sent: Letter to Pizza Hut.pdf
No, I am not really calling for a boycott of Pizza Hut, but it was an eye catching title, wasn’t it? My family went to eat at Pizza Hut today and while we were waiting for my favorite pizza (thin [...]