Es gibt kein Faktum in der Weltgeschichte. Es gibt nur die Darstellung.
— Martin Walser
Fractals are a wonderful way of exploring beauty in mathematics. A Spektrum der Wissenschaft article (the German SciAm) alerted me to this site which is a nice intro the art of fractals. Mathematical imagery by Jos Leys. Technorati Tags: fractals, mathematics
I found this site: Understanding Mathematics and would like to recommend it very much. It has some interesting insights into how to learn mathematics – indeed, it also holds a lot of insights for teachers – how they should go about teaching math (didactics of math is a subject suffering from too much neglect). In [...]
I found this per chance – an interesting article on Lisp features which have gradually merged into other languages and are now taken for granted – the whole article is very readable, so go click Revenge of the Nerds What Made Lisp Different When it was first developed, Lisp embodied nine new ideas. Some of [...]
Today I had a very interesting discussion with my brother concerning the nature of the number 0, which has been long interested both of us. My brother is reading the book “From Zero to Infinity” from Constance Reid; she is of the opinion that 0 is a natural number, because it is a valid answer [...]
