A farewell of sorts…

jenn — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:54:28 +0000

After a very long hiatus I have decided to make this break permanent. Grad school has taken over to the point where I get little enough time off these days and the last thing I have been wanting to do if to spend that time writing publicly about work and school.

Aside from being busy I am doing well and finally have a little bit of data giving me a light at the end of the grad student tunnel.

I want to thank those of you who took the time to read my blog while it was active. And wish all of you the best in your endevours

Of parrots and palindromes

jenn — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:39:09 +0000

Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics fame has been teaching herself Calculus. The result has been several intersting posts but the one most pertenant here: Zeno’s hypothesis and Phi.

Because my brain doesn’t always work in a linear fashion I got to thinking about Square One, the best math show ever (at least to an elementary school student at the turn of the 90s). With some time to kill this weekend and the reminder that just about anything can be found on YouTube I have tracked down several awesome clips for all the math lovers out there.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find clips of the Parrot reciting the Fibonacci sequence or the Palindrome tango but here are:

Nine, Nine, Nine – country song about the “amazing number nine”
8% of my heart – A Meat Loaf parody
Combo Jumbo – Soooo 80′s. But manages to work in the term combinatorics
The Mathematics of Love – one of my all time favorites and one recommended for all you people who come here from a google search asking about Roman Numerals
Angle Dance – again, very 80′s.
Mathman, Mathman
And finally, for your viewing pleasure, A Whole Episode, mathnet segment and all!

Enjoy, I know I sure did.

Tales from the learning curve

A farewell of sorts…

Of parrots and palindromes