I gave a one-hour talk on the The Mathematics of Peak Oil on May 18th. The power point slides from the talk are here.
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The Mathematics of Peak Oil
Posted in 19th Century Mathematicians, Applications, Math History on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things I’ve been working on…
Posted in 19th Century Mathematicians, Algebra, Applications, Math History on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A presentation on M. King Hubbert‘s adaptation of Pierre Verhulst‘s logistic function to model oil production. The proof that a paraboloid of revolution reflects parallel waves to a single point. How to calculate distance between two locations on a sphere given latitude and longitude.
Logicomix
Posted in 19th Century Mathematicians, Math History, Mathematical Logic, Set Theory on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I read a review of the graphic novel Logicomix in the New York Times recently. Logicomix is a graphic novel that dramatizes the work and lives of some of the most important mathematical logicians of the late 19th and early 20th century. A review in the Financial Times explains: First among them is Bertrand Russell, [...]
Kronecker on the Complex Plane
Posted in 19th Century Mathematicians, Complex Analysis, Math History on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of √(-1), but to the quite natural circumstance that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line. Leopold Kronecker, (1894) quoted in Remmert’s Theory of [...]
Georg Cantor and Infinity
Posted in 19th Century Mathematicians on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Georg Cantor was an important mathematician who lived during the late 19th century. He devised a method for comparing different sizes of infinite quantities and demonstrated that there were differnet sizes of infinite sets. The foundation of Cantor’s ideas is the concept of a one-to-one correspondence. This is a concept which is deeply rooted in [...]
