Posts Tagged ‘Math’

Book Review: The Manga Guide to Calculus January 15, 2010 1 Comment

I have got to say, I am quite impressed with The Manga Guide to Calculus. As the title suggests, it is an introduction into the ideas of differential and integral calculus through the use of manga and a story line. The book fulfills on this goal and then some.
The Manga Guide to Calculus starts off [...]

Google Can Haz Four Color Theorem July 14, 2009 2 Comments

Google’s favicon has bothered me for a little while now – not because it looks bad, but because it uses five colors.
In graph theory, it is not very difficult to prove that any planar graph is five colorable. One proof of the theorem relies on the fact that if a graph is a K­5 it [...]

Awesome [latex] \LaTeX [/latex] May 8, 2009 No Comments

Neat Number Theory Problem April 26, 2009 No Comments

Last Thursday in Graph  Theory, one of my friends gave me this neat problem to work on that he had already solved.
The problem goes like this: How many fractions are there such that the numerator and the denominator make up the decimal equivalent. Take 5/2 = 2.5 for example. Each number in the fraction is [...]