Recent content by houserichichi

Convert miles to meters or convert meters/second into miles/second and you'll have your answer.

I signed up for all three in September of 2005. I received a pocket size calendar/phone number book in the mail early in 2006 but have not yet received either of the other two. I believe they are published every two years so the next batch should be up as I am under the impression the previous...

Perhaps this is a dead issue but...we expect the real numbers to follow the rule in the quote above. Why? Because that's what we're taught when first dealing with any form of algebraic manipulation. It isn't until one studies abstract mathematical gadgets (like fields) that they discover that...

I would instinctively put Cantor on the list. Of course, "who were the 20 most important," is a relative question as there's really no way to measure contributions. Perhaps if we were to print each mathematician's completed works on 8 1/2 x 11 and weigh them we could get a better idea...

Zero times infinity means nothing.

MATH RIOTS PROVE FUN INCALCULABLE by Eric Zorn News Item (June 23) -- Mathematicians worldwide were excited and pleased today by the announcement that Princeton University professor Andrew Wiles had finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem, a 365-year-old problem said to be the most famous in...

I'd actually go so far as to not include that when defining what racist mathematics would be. To me, whether we use math from a French mathematician or that of an obscure Indian one is irrelevant, and I think any true mathematician would agree (no offense intended to anyone, of course). It's...

I'm very sorry but I don't understand HOW math can be 'racist'. Perhaps professions therein as one poster had mentioned, but the actual subject itself has no preference to anyone; it's just abstract thought applied to abstract concepts. Perhaps those who claim so are using a bastardized...

That just made my day. Thanks!

If your interpretation of the original ASCII version of the new "quadratic equation" is right, then it's wrong by a simple inspection. The simplest quadratic equation x^2+2x+1=0 will have solutions of \sqrt{2} and -\sqrt{2} via his method while we all know the solution is -1 with...

It sounded to me like the OP was referring to a photograph of a bubble chamber...I could be way off. In any event, here's a picture of one, tell us if that's what you had in mind. It does NOT show the innards of electrons though (as there isn't any) Bubble Chamber Photograph

I'd actually learned it as log being base 10, ln being base e, and lg being base 2...for all those wacky computer scientists, no less. :biggrin:

I checked with Mathematica and the solution set is empty.

I was WONDERING who sent me that over email! That's a wonderful little primer/refresher on linear algebra, Mathwonk! I recommend it as well - definitions, theorems, corollaries to boot without all the extra idle chit chat one normally encounters. :cool:

Zinnnnnnng :biggrin: