09.10.07
Monday reading list
Spotted in my multiple RSS feeds today:
- Darren Kuropatwa on the The Global Learners blog. Darren does great stuff with Web 2.0 in a high school mathematics classroom
- Large integers. Really large. A history of the names for large numbers, large numbers appearing in the literature, and a contest to find the largest integer you can fit on a postcard.
- Dangerous Knowledge In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and AlanTuring- whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.
- Getting to Grips with LaTeX - LaTeX Tutorials by Andrew Roberts @ School of Computing, University of Leeds
- The hidden flight simulator in Google Earth
- The all-knowing Wikipedia on Quaternions
- The Boston area VC firm that took a pass on Facebook
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