Hi,
I have read a lot of mathematics history like S. Hollingdale's Maker's of Mathematics and pop-maths like Simon Singh's Fermat's Last Theorem etc. And from these I found references to other, historic/inspiring, mathematical works like Euclid's Elements and A Mathematician's Apology and so...
There are several methods for example Newton's forward difference interpolation which though quite difficult to do and limited in the fact that you have to have a constant difference between the terms it is very effective, because if the data points are from an arithmetic series it will give you...
I was considering it more for a bit of fun, and I have done some programming in the past like VB and Ruby and a bit of Python. I am on Windows but I dual boot with Linux if that is a better environment for doing it on. I have never written in C but I have a friend who has been trying to learn so...
Hi, could anyone recommend me a good book for learning C programming? I know that there are lots of good website but I would prefer a solid book, however without reading them before hand naturally I can't determine a good one!
So any advice on this specifically would be good thank you. Or any...
The question in the title really says it all...
I was wondering, what relies on the Goldbach conjecture being true? What would happen if it was proven correct?
I have a question which concerns a hypothetical scenario;
Suppose a person with no academic background was to solve a a great mathematical problem like Fermat's last Therm, the Riemann Hypothesis etc. and they wrote a paper on their proof or solution. Would they be able to get published...
Thank you both =)
I think I will have a look at the Olympiad problems and see if I am indeed capable of doing them and then follow your advice Dustbin and check the ones I am uncertain about here.
As for the books I appreciate that learning by book methods isn't a great way to become good and...
I really like maths, and I really like doing mathematical problems.I have learned pretty much everything I need to know for the next year of the school syllabus already by just reading up on stuff that interested me i.e. calculus, complex analysis etc. but that's all about solving stuff and...
I am trying to organise a school trip to a science place somewhere in Europe, we have already been to CERN and I have a few ideas already which ill list below. But what scientific research places do you think would get young people into science? [Has to be in Europe, but not exclusively physics]...
There are loads and loads of good physics books which explain it as part of an explanation of something else =)
I recommend Max Born's Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, the whole first half of it explains these kinds of questions, even where the fundmental ideas about mass, force...
Well I don't explicitly know, but this is my thought about it =)
Battery cells store energy in a very interesting way. You have the two sides, the anode and cathode, which are made up of metals and between them lies a, usually, alkali solution. When you connect the end of the battery and...