Since you're all being so well-behaved while I'm in the field, here's a new wallpaper for your 1680 x 1055 desktop:
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Just though I'd try writing a post title in the style of a crank. Kinda fun!
Gauss' law, of course, is not wrong. But I got a question from a reader that deceptively simple and an interesting example of a theorem not quite working the way you'd expect. I've gone over Gauss' law before, so as a…
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 term of art, which mathematicians use as shorthand for long strings of…
There are many reasons, of course. But here's an especially compelling one:
DON'T jump to conclusions now. Just because Wendy Bullard of Raleigh, N.C., isn't allowed to walk her dog through the Streets at Southpoint, an outdoor mall in Durham, doesn't mean that when she visits New York she can't…
We've done a lot of discussion of the concept of integrals of a function here on this blog. Their definitions and applications are so broad as to defy any one-sentence description, but one of the most basic is the idea of the area under a curve. More precisely it's the signed area under the curve…
Love this pic.
I must admit I am a lover of all these bum sucking shots of yours....