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Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which were...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:53 AM • 25 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:05 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: intelligent design
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run some old classic posts which were first posted in the...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:25 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:20 AM • 34 Comments •
Category: Numbers
. I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:46 AM • 19 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 8:49 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Numbers
I'm away on vacation this week, taking my kids to Disney World. Since I'm not likely to have time to write while I'm away, I'm taking the opportunity to re-run an old classic series of posts on numbers, which...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 1:16 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: classics
A few months ago, I wrote about the Poincare conjecture, and the fact that it appeared to finally have been solved by a reclusive russian mathematician named Grisha Perelman. Now there's news that another classic problem may have been solved....
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 4:31 PM • 33 Comments •
Harald Hanche-Olsen, in the comments on my earlier post about the Principia Mathematica, has pointed out that this months issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society is a special issue in honor of the 100th anniversary of Kurt...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: classics
Finally, I have found online, a copy of the magnificent culmination of the 20th century's most ambitious work of mathematics. The last page of Russel and Whitehead's proof that 1+1=2. On page 378 (yes, three hundred and seventy eight!) of...
Posted by Mark C. Chu-Carroll at 9:41 PM • 38 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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