The Grandfather Tree
I never thought I would give you permission to cut down that giant oak tree in the back of the property, the one that had led my grandfather to buy this land in...
Month: June 2013
Factorials and the meaning of “is”
In a YouTube video, James Grime of NumberPhile makes the claim that the meaning of the factorial is \[n! = \prod_{i=1}^n i\] for n > 0, and proceeds to expla...