Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
Volunteered w/ Orlando Math Circle again to bring Math Night to Englewood Elementary. It was refreshing to see so many students and their parents interested in math puzzles and games. I manned a table with some magic square puzzles (similar to the magic triangles I 3D printed for my students). Here is an article and…
I just finished reading a very old, apparently well-known cult classic known as Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott (1884). My friend gave it to me as a going away gift (they were going away, and looking for a good home for it). After reading it (and enjoying it), I did the usual Googling around to…
Various resources to help you appreciate Ada, Countess of Lovelace as certainly one of the first, if not the very first, documented programmer for a general purpose computing machine. Numbers of Bernoulli program intended for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine: http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/figures/menat6_1-5k.png http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html (Note that Ada’s “Notes” are much longer than the original translation itself) (I thank…