Cover of Calculus for Dummies I got as far as pre-Calc in high school and then never followed up, in college or elsewhere. Is it a good idea? I’m of the opinion that we should all be trying as best we can to continue to learn throughout our lives, to take on new challenges, and […]

My latest article has been posted at Helium.com. Check it out at this link. Here’s a sample: Consider the most striking form of fractal: the Mandelbrot Set. Mandelbrot generated a collection of points on a graph by taking a series of complex numbers, squaring each of them, adding the original number to each, and squaring […]

Stephen Wolfram announced that his new “not a search engine,” Wolfram/Alpha, will premiere in May. This software package will enable users to query it, like Google, but instead of running a search for lists of appropriate web pages, it will calculate the answer to a query using information extracted from web pages. I’ve written an […]

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What do you see? Squint. Look at it sideways. Cross your eyes. Is a pattern beginning to emerge? Or is this a trick? Maybe there’s no real image there. Maybe this is just random TV white noise. Well, okay, it is random. But it isn’t white noise. It’s something much more important. Cool, eh? Via […]