The History of Factorials: Kramp
In an earlier post, I argued that the definition of factorial (\(n!\)) is the number of ways that a number of n distinct objects can be arranged. I have recentl...
Month: January 2014
Infinity and String Theory
There’s a Numberphile video that’s hurting people’s brains. It claims to prove (several ways, including in a companion video) that \[\sum_{n=1...
January 3
You were the Buddha. That’s what you’d told us when you’d gone to China and the children had gathered around you, this towering behemoth of a ...
January 2
There is a paper wasp nest dangling from a tree on our easement, high above the street. It is easily the size of a human head, even desiccated as it is from win...