Mathematics, Physics, and A Hard Day’s Night
Using mathematics and the physics of sound, one of the mysteries of rock ‘n’ roll is examined: how did the Beatles play …
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More Metric Stuff
I’ve gotten a lot of emails about my articles about the necessity of the U.S. converting to metric soon (President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter; Some Practical Consequences of Going Metric). Let me address a few of them.
Read more...Musing on… The Calculator Turns 40
How old am I? I remember when there weren’t any electronic calculators. I remember when the mathematical shortcut of choice was the slide rule (I still have two of them available should a massive EMP wipe out all electronic access). Then came the late-mid 70s. My dad brought home one of the first electronic calculators, an
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