Category Archives: mathematics

grab-bag

Posted on Thursday, 2004 April 15 by Anton

Wanting to learn about database programming, it occurred to me to resume work on my fullerene search code. I’m a bit surprised to find that I haven’t touched it in two years. Speaking of surprises – Angel the vampire had … Continue reading →

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fun with numbers ’n stuff

Posted on Saturday, 2004 February 14 by Anton

MathWorld has had a facelift.

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through a mathematician’s eye

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 29 by Anton

Google claims 111 hits for group.theory square.dance OR square.dancing.

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“geek” tattoos

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 November 04 by Anton

I’m unlikely ever to get a tattoo, but if I did, I incline to the armband type; and I just got an idea for one: a ‘Mercator projection’ of Escher’s hyperbolic fish. Instead of a circle, the horizon would be … Continue reading →

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throw a pebble

Posted on Thursday, 2003 September 25 by Anton

I have long taken delight in how the Net lets me rub electrons informally with scholars such as John Conway and Larry Trask. On September 12, I wrote to Eric Weisstein of MathWorld: If the tetrahedral rotation group is isomorphic … Continue reading →

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