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Posted by ubergeeke on July 8th, 2008 in blogpost

Faster than that giant number theory tome on your desk.

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Posted by ubergeeke on July 4th, 2008 in blogpost

One approach can solve many problems.

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Posted by ubergeeke on June 2nd, 2008 in blogpost

Last month, I saw a blurb in the IEEE Spectrum about Dr Jeannine Mosely and her Menger sponge made from over 66K business cards. Seems like a perfectly good application of an EE/CS PhD to me. (I’m kind of curious about the structural integrity of that thing.) What I *really* thought was cool, though, was […]

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Posted by ubergeeke on May 27th, 2008 in blogpost, how-to

Listen, we’ve only got four and a half years until the world ends, and if that doesn’t pan out, it’s just a matter of time before some virus strain (or alien culture or robot revolution or our own stupidity) destroys society as we know it. Isn’t it time you made sure your low-tech skills were […]

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Posted by ubergeeke on May 19th, 2008 in blogpost

Here’s your warning: I’m about to go all fangirl on Janna Levin . Having a PhD in Physics would have been enough of a reason, but I found out about this book first.
Yesterday, when I opened Janna Levin’s "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines" to the first page, my first thought was that it was […]

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Posted by ubergeeke on May 17th, 2008 in blogpost, how-to

This is the first guest post on .51, and it comes from Alex McFerron, a mathematics and computer science theory hobbyist (that’s right; Alex does this stuff for *fun*!) who answered my call for more math here on the site.
Thanks, Alex!
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Here are five ways to have fun with mathematics right now, without having to review […]

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