I was discussing some topic with a colleague, and he said “and what about the Apple Man?”
“The Apple Man?” I asked.
Apparently, in German (my colleague hails from Germany) Apple Man, or Apfelmännchen, is the word used for the Mandelbrot Set.
Category: Miscellany
Millions, Billions, Trillions and Millillions
Here’s a bit of history about the words we use for numbers big enough to describe world populations and budgets.
Continue reading Millions, Billions, Trillions and Millillions
Logical Proverbs
“No news is good news”… “You can’t have your cake and eat it”… if you consider things perfectly logically, these should bother you. After all, if no news was good news, logically speaking, all news would be bad news, yes? And that would be bad news.
The Polar Bear
Just like the Cartesian bear, but with a change of coordinates.
Picture below :
Amazing Math Fact
Here’s something interesting : work out the cubes of 1, of 5 and of 3, then add them together.
Math At The Beach
Well, it was a sunny day, my youngest son wanted to head to the beach to make sandcastles. Why not join in, I thought?
Does Math Make You Seem Smarter?
Often movies include scenes showing math. Often, the math is on a blackboard or whiteboard in a character’s room or office, or in the background of the credits roll at the end of the show. The intended effect is, I guess, to tell the audience “this character is a genius of some sort, he or she is going to provide the hero with some amazing invention or information that will help defeat the villain”.
Do Bellweathers Exist?
On Nate Silver’s election live blog, he points out “In every presidential election since 1960, the candidate who prevailed in Florida’s Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, has also prevailed in Florida”
Can Elections Be Fair?
Imagine the United States had only three states, Texas, California and Florida. Suppose each of these states sent 10 delegates to the electoral college. Suppose, also, that each of these states is a swing state – the polls show 50% support for either candidate, so the result depends on tiny swings within each state.
Mathematically Constructed Music
In another post, I explain a way to use a code to make an infinitely long string of symbols that never repeats. I decided to use this method to make some music. In this post, I explain how you can do the same thing.
Continue reading Mathematically Constructed Music