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Matt Springer is a graduate student of physics at Texas A&M university. He is also an occasional writer and tinkerer, and he is probably too curious for his own good.
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Category: Sunday Function
We're doing two functions today. If I'm not mistaken we've done each of them separately, but there's a famous and interesting relationship between the two that's always interesting to look at. Like very many interesting mathematical facts, it has to...
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Category: Sunday Function
Again I have to apologize for the sparseness of posting lately, but I've got two research projects going full blast and time has not been something I have a lot of. I'll still be writing at least a few times...
Posted by Matt Springer at 12:13 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
Big O!
Posted by Matt Springer at 1:35 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
All right, here's a fun one. It usually comes as part of a story. The story as told is mostly true, though a few details have been a little fudged by the winds of history. It goes like this: when...
Posted by Matt Springer at 12:34 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
Find the function, with a prize!
Posted by Matt Springer at 12:56 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
The vast majority of the functions we've talked about over all these Sundays have been ones that are expressible as a relationship between two numbers x and y. Sometimes the relationship is simple, sometimes it's fairly complicated. Mostly though, we...
Posted by Matt Springer at 8:36 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
Anybody heard of the idea of The Singularity? Roughly, it goes like this: technological progress builds on itself, and this self-reinforcing feedback loop is eventually going to come to a head where humanity makes a quantum leap into an unknowable...
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:00 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
I think we've developed a nice theme over the last few weeks, gradually working our way through a less well-behaved function - the triangle wave - and trying to find various series expansions for it. "Well-behaved" is kind of a...
Posted by Matt Springer at 10:00 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sunday Function
Sorry for the two-day delay. The personal business to which I alluded kept me out until yesterday morning, delaying this post until today. I hope it's decent for all that! This week, the same function as last week. There's nothing...
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Category: Sunday Function
There's an interesting book I'm working on called The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization, by historian Brian Ward-Perkins. He argues (against a prominent modern school of thought) that Rome did indeed fall rather than merely change, and...
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