Divisibility Tests
Most people are aware of two or three basic tests for divisibility by a prime number: A number n is divisible by 2 iff it ends in an even number (0, 2, 4, 6, or...
Month: June 2016
Polygons as Functions
A recent comment from a colleague got me thinking about describing polygons using functions. His intent was that polygons (and all closed shapes) can be describ...
Indefinite vs infinite
I have borrowed from a colleague a copy of G. A. Wentworth’s Plane and Solid Geometry, copyright 1899 and published 1902 by The Athenæum Press of Boston. ...
Rationals except Zero
Here’s a quick one: All rational numbers except 0 can be expressed as \[(-1)^s \Pi p_i^{n_i}\] where \(s \in \{0, 1\}\), \(p_i\) is a prime number, and \(...
Defining a Line
The version of Geometry most widely taught in high schools in the United States is an amalgam of the two most basic fields of geometry: Synthetic and analytic. ...
claustrophobia
i am overwhelmed by the wall by the river by the stream of gogogodododostopstopstopnownownow until i am left breathless suffocated by another day of doing nothi...
But is it math?
It is a persistently popular thing to do on social media to post challenges like this one. I used to be of a mind to be outraged at the abuse of the equal sign:...