Lee came up with a great find on Archive.org. Mr. Boggs Steps Out is a tale of love, adventure, and……statistical rectitude? Best of all it’s free. Follow the link to Lee’s page.
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Apr 10
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
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Feb 10
Math + War
Just happened to run into this on a data mining blog. A very provocative use of mathematics to understand Iraq and it’s connection to other world conflicts.
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Jan 10
7×13 = 28 never gets old
I’ve posted this Abbot and Costello video before.
But a student in my Math for Liberal Arts course found them playing the exact same joke on another show. They didn’t even change the numbers.
Thanks, Elaine!
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Nov 09
Feeling Nostalgic
Here’s a shout out to an oldy but goody. I remember watching this in 7th grade. I just saw it again for the first time since. It still makes me dizzy.
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Oct 09
Math, where’s the love?
Here’s a cheesy response video to one of students saying that math isn’t a language because it can’t express love. I know. I need to get a life.
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Oct 09
How round is your circle?
Brian pointed me to an interesting new book “How round is your circle? : where engineering and mathematics meet” by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin. It doesn’t end there apparently. They also have a great website and some demonstrations on YouTube. (See above) I’m still making it through What is a Number?, but after seeing the demonstrations, this is definitely my next read.
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Aug 09
Lunch Doodles
Here’s another lunch doodle from Austin Kleon. I’d never seen the seagulls in my “+”, “-”, and “<" signs. This is definitely drawing a mathematician can handle.
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Aug 09
Binary Ops
I’ve been catching up on some feeds and found two great examples of visual binary operations on Drawn. The above is from Christoph Niemann’s I Confess. It purports to explain how to use the two main elements of any news story and their accompanying visual metaphors to get a 90% acceptance rate on sketch proposals. I have no idea if this works, but love the clever graphic. The video below is Austin Kleon’s charming How to Draw Faces.
