Use of statistics…
Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post, for support rather than illumination.
Mathematics
Wishful thinking or The Misuse of Maths in Psychology
The misuse of maths in psychology “Think positively!” – a seemingly innocuous remark you might hear every so often… you might have even read it in one of those self-help books, or even from renowned… Read More »Wishful thinking or The Misuse of Maths in Psychology
Suggestions of iPad apps for university mathematics teaching
This is a re-blog of the original entry by Peter Rowlett in the Aperiodical blog. I asked in the previous post for suggestions of iPad apps that I could use to help with my job as a… Read More »Suggestions of iPad apps for university mathematics teaching
Relating Airy and Bessel functions
Reblogged from The Endeavour by J. D. Cook. The Airy functions Ai(x) and Bi(x) are independent solutions to the differential equation For negative x they act something like sin(x) and cos(x). For positive x they act something like exp(x)… Read More »Relating Airy and Bessel functions
Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
I was talking to some students the other day (actually… a couple of months ago… ahem…), they had some questions about some problems on linear algebra and after a short while it became clear that… Read More »Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues
Twin Primes and the Ternary Goldbach Conjecture
Just like buses… exactly just like buses… you wait for one and two come all at once. That is exactly what I thought when I heard about the two results in number theory that… Read More »Twin Primes and the Ternary Goldbach Conjecture
The most secret of messages… cracked!!
In a past post I mentioned the serendipitous discovery of an encrypted message attached to the leg of a pigeon. The message, from WWII, had eluded the experts at GCHQ and the contents of… Read More »The most secret of messages… cracked!!
Pirates and Maths
Grrrreat!
Mathematical Theorems – Sci-advent – Day 6
Mathematical theorem network built from Walter Rudin’s Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Scientific knowledge is built by building up on hypotheses and theories, repeatedly check them against observations of the natural world and continue to… Read More »Mathematical Theorems – Sci-advent – Day 6
Working with logarithms base 10, 2 and e…
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about logarithms and their use. They may seem to be a bit esoteric and they can cause a bit of head-scratching: a logarithm (base ) of a… Read More »Working with logarithms base 10, 2 and e…