Posted in July 12, 2009 ¬ 3:08 pmh.
spencer
I just found this linked from Wikipedia, and wanted to share/tag it for myself.
This describes Moebius transformations, which are maps of the complex plane which have the form
for fixed . This video really emphasizes how anything having to do with the complex numbers is really about rotation.
I don’t think we have a plug-in for [...]
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Posted in June 3, 2009 ¬ 1:50 amh.
spencer
This post, and a few to follow, aren’t going to be about mathematics at all, but rather another subject close to my heart: education. I am going to share some thoughts on education in general and, in particular, the sorry state of public education (in this country and elsewhere, and from kindergarten through college). In [...]
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