the triangle Austin, TX 2011/07/17 A couple of years ago, I wrote a little program about triangles. The program calculates the area of a triangle given the base and the height. No great feat, right? Except, I did a little something special with the user interface. The triangle is graphed in a good old Cartesian … Continue reading Triangles
Austin, TX 7/7/2011 For millennia, humans have loved to operate with mathematical objects. We started with shapes. We moved them around, flipped them over, and even “added” them, laying them side-to-side. Then, we went to town on numbers, and the town grew to a metropolis of operation neighborhoods: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation. From … Continue reading Binomial Squared
Madison Square Park, NYC5/28/2011 I was in NYC for a friend’s wedding. Big plans for the city: food, subway rides, Central Park, the Upper East Side, and chalk. On Saturday morning, I hopped a train to midtown and headed into Madison Square Park. The park had a large sculpture from Jaume Plensa. It stopped me … Continue reading Hexagons
Footpath Math: Chalk it up to a math geek 