[math-fun] Draft of my June 7, 2019 essay
I'm writing an extra essay this month; it's a roundup of fun math-y things I found on the internet in May, rather than a treatment of a particular topic. Comments are welcome as always. http://mathenchant.org/049-draft1.pdf (I already found one typo: in the first paragraph, "170 the number of steps" should be "170 is the number of steps".) Jim
Margaret Hamilton, it should be noted, went on to lead the development of the on-board flight software for the Apollo program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist) On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:15 PM James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm writing an extra essay this month; it's a roundup of fun math-y things I found on the internet in May, rather than a treatment of a particular topic. Comments are welcome as always.
http://mathenchant.org/049-draft1.pdf
(I already found one typo: in the first paragraph, "170 the number of steps" should be "170 is the number of steps".)
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<< excellent mathematical content marred by sub-par layout >> Erm --- (under Mac OSX Safari) followed by one almost empty page, then 3 examples in ~25pt type occupying all of the next two pages. [You got it wrong, but you made your point!] WFL On 6/5/19, Tom Duff <td@pixar.com> wrote:
Margaret Hamilton, it should be noted, went on to lead the development of the on-board flight software for the Apollo program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:15 PM James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm writing an extra essay this month; it's a roundup of fun math-y things I found on the internet in May, rather than a treatment of a particular topic. Comments are welcome as always.
http://mathenchant.org/049-draft1.pdf
(I already found one typo: in the first paragraph, "170 the number of steps" should be "170 is the number of steps".)
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