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XamuelA

  1. I've noticed that the best math always has a certain "loopy" quality to it. Inductions which come within a hair's breadth of infinite loop. 11:45 AM May 12th via web
  2. I think the secret to happiness, at least for me, is to kill my inner cynic. I find cynicism is the source of quite a lot of misery 12:26 AM May 10th via web
  3. Just got back from a great conference at Notre Dame. Their coach wanted me to play some football, but I told him math's more important. 1:12 PM Apr 30th via web
  4. Since I'm a logician, that means everything I say is true. You can't argue with logic! 1:22 PM Apr 25th via web
  5. I used to listen to the Beatles a lot when they were underground. Too bad they had to go all mainstream and sell out 8:12 PM Apr 22nd via web
  6. Why do hotels always emphasize that their breakfasts are "continental"? What exactly is a "non-continental" breakfast anyway? 8:19 AM Apr 16th via web
  7. The best way to learn about something is to write about it 10:42 AM Apr 12th via web
  8. What if instead of sinking into the Atlantic, the Titanic sank into a huge plate of spaghetti? The passengers'd all be like, "delicious!" 4:34 PM Apr 8th via web
  9. Congratulations to the Pirate Party of Germany for picking up 4 seats in the state of Saarland 8:08 AM Apr 5th via web
  10. I've posted the 15th Linkfest, now with a new format and more editorial comments! xamuel.com/fifteenth-link… 7:24 AM Apr 2nd via web
  11. Often, when I subscribe to an academic journal's RSS feed, according to Google Reader, I'm the *ONLY* subscriber in the world. Hmm. 7:21 AM Apr 2nd via web
  12. Answer to yesterday's question: general antideriv of 1/x is piecewise fnc: log|x|+C for x>0, log|x|+D for x<0. See golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/… 8:03 AM Mar 20th via web
  13. @ProfessorJamal Not really :P 8:01 AM Mar 20th via web in reply to ProfessorJamal
  14. If the previous question stumped you, try this. A car's velocity is v=1/t. At time t=-1 its position is 0. Find its position at time t=1. 6:43 PM Mar 19th via web
  15. @ProfessorJamal Yep. Locally constant means that around every point in the domain, there's an open interval where the function is constant 6:40 PM Mar 19th via web in reply to ProfessorJamal
  16. Trick question: find the most general antiderivative of 1/x. (Hint: your answer should involve two distinct constants of integration) 12:22 PM Mar 19th via web
  17. New article: Towards the Mathematics of Video Game Glitches xamuel.com/glitch-math/ 8:53 AM Mar 16th via web
  18. Time for a pop quiz. True or False? "Within the empty set, there are infinitely many disjoint embedded copies of the empty set" 7:46 AM Mar 6th via web
  19. Added a couple new comics to Troll Math: "The St. Petersburg Paradox" and "Starsines" xamuel.com/troll-math/ 2:23 PM Mar 1st via web
  20. New article: Is Summation Notation ambiguous? xamuel.com/summation-nota… 9:51 AM Feb 27th via web