Archive for October, 2007

A statistics student wrote to me and asked for some career advice.

Did the recent Blog Action Day have a lasting effect on people's awareness of environmental issues?

This restored working monastery in Singapore is well worth a visit.

Weapons of Math Instruction is a hiphop anti-war piece by Mathematicians.

A recent IntMath poll indicates that the majority of students feel that math will be useful to them in their future careers.

The Integrator allows the user to input a mathematical expression and it outputs the indefinite integral.

Swivel allows the user to upload their own data and to visualize it in various ways. There are some interesting "featured graphs".

Is it true that you live longer if you retire earlier? Let's investigate this claim.

I remain unsatisfied with the reasons for slow Internet-based banking transactions.

This week's Friday Math Movie is a fascinating look at a young English guy with extraordinary calculation abilities.