• Happenings – 2012 Feb 4

    Updated: 2012-02-04 19:13:10
    The biggest news in the past week was the response to Monday’s post on group theory. As I said, this blog gets about 1000 hits per week… about 150 hits per day. Monday is often a good day… perhaps because that’s the day new posts go out. Well, I put out last Monday’s post at [...]

  • Aaron Silberstein – Plane Curve Singularities and the Absolute Galois Group of Q Video

    Updated: 2012-02-02 14:23:47

  • Happenings – 2012 jan 28

    Updated: 2012-01-28 18:37:42
    Mathematically speaking, it’s been a quiet week. I hope to put out a summary of multi-collinearity this Monday… but, if necessary, I already have a different post written – a sketchy introduction to group theory. Finishing it off last weekend didn’t leave much time for other mathematics. I did pick up chemical reactions again… namely, [...]

  • Adding games for kindergarten, preschool, and first grade kids

    Updated: 2012-01-24 20:31:20
    Looking for great adding games for students in elememtary schools. Find good educational games right here.

  • 'The maths handbook'

    Updated: 2012-01-23 00:06:59
    The maths handbook: Everyday maths made simple Richard Elwes Richard Elwes' Maths handbook is a lucid presentation of basic mathematics facts. It is intended for those who "were never any good at mathematics," for grown-ups who wish they remembered more of the maths they studied as children, or those who are intimidated by the subject. It is the latter point the author is most passionate about.read more

  • Apples in a Basket

    Updated: 2012-01-22 20:30:21
    Do you remember how to divide three apples among four people? Make apple sauce, of course. In the following two puzzles you are not allowed to cut apples. Here is an old riddle: There are four apples in a basket. How can you divide them among four people, so that one apple [...]

  • Happenings – 2012 Jan 21

    Updated: 2012-01-21 19:52:47
    What’s really memorable about this past week, for me, was a short collaboration between my alter egos the kid and the undergraduate. The undergrad was struggling with easy stuff – and the kid really, really wanted to get it right. I had been struggling with circuit theory… specifically with RLC circuits. Yes, I solved them [...]

  • Happenings – 2012 Jan 14

    Updated: 2012-01-14 21:05:19
    I finished playing a very long game of Ascendancy in the middle of the week. My alter ego the kid is now reading Körner’s “The Pleasures of Counting”. My alter ego the undergraduate managed to put in a couple of hours on circuit theory (trying to understand the use of complex impedance)… he even started [...]

  • Erie Insurance Internship Information

    Updated: 2012-01-13 19:14:55
    Behrend Math Blog Erie Insurance Internship Information By MICHAEL RUTTER on January 13, 2012 2:14 PM No Comments No TrackBacks Erie Insurance has more internships available this summer . Search for intern at this : website http : www.erieinsurance.com about job-openings.aspx More details here : link is bad in email , try above link Hello , I am writing to let you know about Finance internship positions available for summer , 2012. This is a paid-internship , and housing assistance may be available to those that qualify . nbsp We appreciate your help in sharing this information through your school's online posting and other communication . nbsp We also appreciate the relationships that we are building with our college and university contacts . nbsp For more information and to apply ,

  • 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting

    Updated: 2012-01-13 15:19:09
    Last week the team from the Worldwide Center of Mathematics attended the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) at Hynes Convention Center in Boston. The JMM is the largest annual mathematics meeting in the world with participants ranging from students to leading researchers in mathematics as well as innovators in the field of mathematical education programs. [...]

  • Sergeism and Weight Loss

    Updated: 2012-01-10 21:25:22
    Several years ago my son Sergei started a new movement: Sergeism. Followers of this philosophy seek to maximize Sergei’s happiness. Since Sergei’s happiness involves everyone being happy, becoming happy is a consequential goal of his followers. Let me explain why this might be a perfect religion for many people, not the [...]

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