Category: Books

Part two of my current unemployment reading list is… Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker. I first came across Mr Matt Parker via his numerous youtube videos. They are in the ‘funny math with often a bit of ridiculousness’ category. Through his videos, I eventually made my way to his first book …

Having a Covid music playlist section shows that I like to (slowly) make lists/groupings of various items. I am hoping that this new list won’t be too long since its length is inversely proportional to my employment success. I do like to read, however sometimes I fall behind with my reading list. Also, I will …

Encounters with Chaos by Denny Gulick… Years and years ago this was a textbook for a course that I took. I have to admit that I did not have the necessary math background to understand everything. With covid I felt it was perhaps a good time to reread it. Apparently, there is a new edition …

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott… I remember a long time ago, in my university undergrad daze, these guys I knew took a philosophy course where they read this book. I overheard what sounded like a great conversation, and they suggested that I should read the book as well. At the time, I didn’t read this …

So one of my projects right now involves plotting differential equations. I want to make an interactive web-based tool to play around with the solution to a set of differential equations. In my recent course we used a few different data visualization tools and they all had some issues: Matplotlib… can only make static graphs …

So I found this book at some charity used book sale a few years ago and was able to get it for $1. Didn’t read it at the time but I was looking at my bookshelf and thought that this might be the best time to read it. So, I’m not going to do a …