eonecstatic over numbersComplex Analysis- April 30, 2008 I&8217;ve finally wiped the dust off my copy of Ahlfors and started reading from page 1. Previously, I&8217;ve only looked at the chapter on Elliptic functions as a reference. I&8217;ve skimmed through four chapters and decided that it is probably not very suitable for the complex analysis course later in the year. It&8217;s a pity ...http://unimodular.net/blog/?p=128 Oliver Heaviside- April 30, 2008 I have no idea who is Heaviside until I started to teach this course which included Laplace transforms. That got me really interested and I checked out P. Nahin&8217;s biography from the library. Perusing the borrowing slip, the book was last borrowed in Sep 2006, prior to that Mar 1990. 16 long years. Meanwhile, in ...http://unimodular.net/blog/?p=127 Morries Law- April 19, 2008 Came across this curious identity while preparing some trigo notes. According to wolfram, it is called Morrie&8217;s Law by Feynman after his childhood friend who showed it to him. Wow, all I need now is some future nobel laureate with a big mouth (no disrespect intended) , so that some cute little identity might be named ...http://unimodular.net/blog/?p=124 |