To e Or Not To e? Thats A Constant Question University of Toronto mathematician Chandler Davis, Ph.D., Editor of The Mathematical Onthe other hand, numerical analyst Simon Plouffe of HydroQuebec in http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=25350
NF > Reviews > Ranked Index Building Large KnowledgeBased Systems; N. David Mermin, Editor. Boojums Smalltalk with Style; NJA Sloane, Simon Plouffe. The http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/bib/nf/ranked.htm
Extractions: unmissable 1 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage The Complete Plain Words Godel, Escher, Bach Investigations ... The Visual Display of Quantitative Information unmissable 1.5 Consciousness Explained Darwin's Dangerous Idea Wonderful Life The Elegant Universe ... Visual Explanations great stuff 2 The Timeless Way of Building A Pattern Language Fractals Everywhere The Limits of Mathematics ... The Psychology of Computer Programming great stuff 2.5 Turtle Geometry The Oregon Experiment The Evolution of Co-operation How Nature Works ... Somebody Somewhere worth reading 3 Language Myths Extreme Programming Explained Planning Extreme Programming The Spike ... Understanding Computers and Cognition worth reading 3.5 Introduction to Artificial Life Extreme Programming Applied The Computer Privacy Handbook Guide to Better Smalltalk ... Bringing Design to Software passes the time 4 Send This Jerk the Bedbug Letter The Ten Second Internet Manager AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management Mother Tongue ... Fifty per cent Proof passes the time 4.5 AntiPatterns Non-Standard Computation Silicon Second Nature How to Lie with Maps ... Eccentrics waste of time 5 Java-SIG's 100 Best Applets Computers and the Imagination Advanced Smalltalk Virtual Organisms unfinishable 6 Sophie's World Data Smog
Journal Of Integer Sequences Simon Plouffe (Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, PQ Canada),; EricM. Rains Waterloo, Waterloo, ON Canada),; Neil JA Sloane, Editorin-Chief (AT T http://www.emis.unne.edu.ar/journals/JIS/
Links In English 81 (July 1 To August 31, 2002 - 16) generated using a new tagging program written by Simon Plouffe at the CECM, SimonFraser Music on the Web (UK) Classical Editor Rob Barnett Music Webmaster http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7863/furt/alfa_english81.html
Extractions: Astronomy Rocky Kolb Blind Watchers of the Sky The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of The Universe [Addison-Wesley 1996] Paperback: ISBN 0-201-15496-X Rudolf Kippenhahn Light from the Depths of Time [Springer 1987] Paperback: ISBN 0-387-17119-3 Karl F Kuhn In Quest of the Universe second edition [West 1994] Paperback: ISBN 0-314-12393-3 Jan-Pierre Luminet Black Holes [Cambridge 1992] Paperback: ISBN 0-521-40906-3 Theodore P Snow Essentials of The Dynamic Universe An Introduction to Astronomy fourth edition [West 1993] Paperback: ISBN 0-314-00876-4 Otto Struve The Universe [MIT Press 1962] Paperback: ISBN 0-262-69003-9 James Trefil Space-Time-Infinity The Smithsonian Views the Universe [Pantheon 1985] Cloth: ISBN 0-394-54843-4 Kip S Thorne Black Holes and Time Warps The New Cosmos fourth edition [Springer 1991] Cloth: ISBN 0-387-52593-9 Compendium of Practical Astronomy Vol 1: Instrumentation and Reduction Techniques Vol 2: Earth and the Solar System Vol 3: Stars and Stellar Systems
Extractions: Recently on MathTrek: The Limits of Mathematics 2/21/98 The Counterfeit Coin 2/14/98 Nine Primes in a Row 2/7/98 February Pick a Digit, Any Digit One of the most amazing mathematical results of the last few years was the discovery of a surprisingly simple formula for computing digits of the number pi. Unlike previously known methods, this one allows you to calculate isolated digitswithout computing and keeping track of all the preceding numbers. "No one had previously even conjectured that such a digit-extraction algorithm for pi was possible," says Steven Finch of MathSoft, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. The only catch is that the formula works for hexadecimal (base 16) or binary digits but not for decimal digits. Thus, it's possible to determine that the 40 billionth binary digit of pi is 1, followed by 00100100001110. . . . However, there's no way to convert these numbers into decimal form without knowing all the binary digits that come before the given string. In hexadecimal form, the number pi is written as 3.243F6A8885A308D313198A2E0. . . , where the letters stand in for the hexadecimal equivalent of the base-10 numbers 10 (A), 11 (B), 12 (C), 13 (D), 14 (E), and 15 (F). It's straightforward to convert a hexadecimal expression into binary form but not into decimal form.
BibTeX Database For Emerging.tex % Updated With Data From Jon 204}, year = {1997}, booktitle={Proceedings of ISSAC 97, Maui}, Editor = {W.~K book{SloanePlouffe1995,author = NJA Sloane and Simon Plouffe , title = The http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~rcorless/frames/PAPERS/SYMBOLIC/emerge.bib
Math.Net Bookstore of Integer Sequences ~ Ships in 23 days NJA Sloane, Simon Plouffe / Hardcover /Published Modular Forms and Fermat s Last Theorem Gary Cornell (Editor), et al http://www.math.net/mathbooks/number-theory.html
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How Random Is Pi? By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science Editor. That discovery was made byDavid Bailey and Canadian mathematicians Peter Borewin and Simon Plouffe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2146295.stm
Extractions: BBC News Online science editor Mathematicians have achieved a major step towards answering the question of whether numbers like pi and other mathematical constants are truly random and for the first time linked number theory with chaos theory. It is not just a mathematical curiosity they say. Proving that pi never repeats itself would be a major advance in our theory of numbers. It may also allow the construction of unbreakable codes based on long sequences of random numbers. The value of pi is known to 500 billion places. No cyclic patterns have been found and if mathematicians are correct none will ever be found no matter how many digits are calculated. Hypothesis A Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, has been known for thousands of years to be mystifying. Some ancient Greeks built a religion around it.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | How Random Is Pi? By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science Editor That discovery was made byDavid Bailey and Canadian mathematicians Peter Borewin and Simon Plouffe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/sci/tech/2146295.stm
Extractions: Mathematicians have achieved a major step towards answering the question of whether numbers like pi and other mathematical constants are truly random and for the first time linked number theory with chaos theory. It is not just a mathematical curiosity they say. Proving that pi never repeats itself would be a major advance in our theory of numbers. It may also allow the construction of unbreakable codes based on long sequences of random numbers. The value of pi is known to 500 billion places. No cyclic patterns have been found and if mathematicians are correct none will ever be found no matter how many digits are calculated. Hypothesis A Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, has been known for thousands of years to be mystifying. Some ancient Greeks built a religion around it. Pi is a ubiquitous number whose first few digits are the well-known 3.14159. Pi will go on forever¿
6 May 2002 the entire file, so I was forced to use a textEditor (BBEdit Lite Simon Plouffe sentlog(13981) ~ 9.5454545454 ., log(163) ~ 163/32, Zeta(3) ~ log(19)/sqrt(6 http://www.mathpuzzle.com/6may2002.htm
Extractions: material added 6 May 2002 Theo Gray has built a Periodic Table. A full photo history is available . I helped him a bit, and hope to write up some of my elemental discoveries soon. As an example, take a look at this molybdenum ingot The Catalan conjecture, that 8 and 9 are the only consectutive powers, has been proven. This has been expected for awhile, as mentioned by Ivars Peterson . There, he mentions "Preda Mihailescu of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has proved a theorem that is likely to lead to a solution of Catalan's conjecture." The theorem bounded any possible answers to the conjecture within a computer searchable space, and it seems Mihailescu has finished the search. Mathematician Bill Tutte has died. Among his many accomplishments, he disproved Tait's conjecture . I talked about this and about him on 19 November . In 2001, one of his conjectures was proven. Snark Theorem: Any Snark has a Petersen Graph minor. (Conjectured by Tutte, called Snarks by Gardner, proven by Robertson, Sanders, Seymour and Thomas.) NPL puzzler Kray will run Intercoastal Altercations, a team puzzle solving event, on May 11th. See
Books / Science & Nature / Mathematics / Number Theory Modular Forms and Fermat s Last Theorem Gary Cornell (Editor), et al The Encyclopediaof Integer Sequences NJA Sloane, Simon Plouffe / Hardcover / Published http://www.bookmag.com/books/science---nature/138.html
Combinatorial Links Peter Paule is working as Associate Editor for Computer Algebra for s S. Finch);Inverse Symbolic Calculator at the CECM (including Simon Plouffe s Table of http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/research/combinat/risc/links/
Extractions: Description Researchers Seminar Lectures ... Mailing List Search: The Fields Institute Program on Special Functions, q -Series and Related Topics , Toronto, Canada, June 12-23. CARMA Workshop: Topics in Symbolic Computation , Kopenhagen, Denmark, October 5-6. th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics , Vienna, Austria, July 14-18. nd , Maratea, Italy, August 31-September 6. MSRI Workshop on Symbolic Computation in Geometry and Analysis , Berkley, California, October 12-16. rd th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics , Barcelona, Spain, June 7-11.
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Extractions: communicated me on November 22, 1997 the following question by Irving Segal . As Irving Segal wrote, the question is relevant to theoretical physics and seems mathematically interesting. As far as I know, the question has not yet been answered by anybody. Tom Koornwinder Subject: Wilf and Zeilberger win Steele prize On January 13, 1998 I received a message from Doron Zeilberger to his E-friends that Herbert Wilf and Doron Zeilberger were awarded the 1998 Steele prize. He added the responses of Herbert Wilf and himself to this prize, see below. I congratulate Herbert and Doron on this well-deserved award. Tom Koornwinder Response to the Award of the 1998 Steele Prize by Doron Zeilberger Subject: Arno Kuijlaars receives 1998 Popov prize The following is based on a message from Prof. Jaap Korevaar and on the URL http://math.vanderbilt.edu/events/approx.html I congratulate Arno. Tom Koornwinder Subject: Ian Macdonald to give plenary lecture at ICM Ian G. Macdonald (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, England) is one of 21 mathematicians invited to give one-hour Plenary Lectures at ICM-98, the International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in Berlin, Germany, August 18-27, 1998. This invitation was issued by the Organizing Committee on the recommendation of the Program Committee appointed by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). This information is taken from the IMU website at the URL http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/B/2 Topic #7 OP-SF NET 5.1 January 15, 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Virginia Kiryakova
N. Simon - Cookie Nest The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences By N. Sloane, Simon Plouffe March, 1995 The ChemistryBy John N. Abelson, Melvin I. (EditorIn-Chief) Simon 15 June http://store.cookienest.com/authors/n. simon.php
Extractions: This page contains pointers to lecture notes, books, software, etc. of particular interest to researchers in discrete mathematics. If you know of any such items please address e-mail to the Managing Editor . Thank you. The MACEK package, written by Petr Hlineny, is for practical structural computations with matroids representable over finite (partial) fields. This package supports easy manipulation with matrices representing matroids over finite partial fields. There are tests for minors, equivalence, branch-width three, connectivity, and other structural properties available. One can also generate all nonequivalent 3-connected extensions of matroids. More functions are planned for the future, and suggestions are welcome. The Mathematica "guessing machine" RATE , written by Christian Krattenthaler, allows you to guess a closed form expression (if existent) for a sequence of numbers, given the first few terms of the sequence. Thus, RATE complements Neile Sloane and Simon Plouffe's SUPERSEEKER and Bruno Salvy and Paul Zimmermann's GFUN . The Maple equivalent of RATE, called
Literature On Non-Realistic Computer Graphics In Walter R. Bender and Wil Plouffe, Editors, Image Handling and In Václav Skala,Editor, Proceedings of WSCG 95 (Pilzen 56 Paul Richens and Simon Schofield. http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~stefans/lehre/sfu/litlist.html
Extractions: A. Appel, F. J. Rohlf, and A. J. Stein. The haloed line effect for hidden line elimination. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'79, (Chicago, August 1979) , Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, pages 151-157, New York, 1979. ACM SIGGRAPH. Teresa W. Bleser, John L. Sibert, and J. Patrick McGee. Charcoal Sketching: Returning Control to the Artist. ACM Transactions on Graphics , 7(1):76-81, January 1988. H. Blum. A Transformation for Extracting New Descriptors of Shape. In W. Wathen-Dunn, editor, Models for the Perception of Speech and Visual Form , pages 362-380, Cambridge, MA, 1967. MIT Press. F. J. Canny. A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE Trans PAMI R. W. Floyd and L. Steinberg. An adaptive algorithm for spatial gray scale. In SID 75, Int. Symp. Dig. Tech. Papers , page 36. 1975. Don Herbison-Evans. How to Merge Hidden Arcs and Then Not Draw Them. Computer and Graphics Terry M. Higgins and Kellogg S. Booth. A cel-based model for paint systems. In M. Green, editor, Proceedings of Graphics Interface '86 , pages 82-90, May 1986.
Bibliogrphie Schofield, 1994 Simon Schofield to 2D Shape Blending. In Edwin E. Catmull, Editor,Proceedings of Fibers. In Walter R. Bender and Wil Plouffe, Editors, Image http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/pub/books/npr/Bibliographie/Bibliographie.htm
Institute Advisory Board Biographies - CIHR Louise Plouffe joined Health Canada in 1989 as a Psychological Association and BookReview Editor for the Honours program in Biology at Simon Fraser University http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/institutes/ia/11356.shtml
Extractions: PI on the Solidage CIHR funded Interdisciplinary Health Research Team ( IHRT ): "The Challenge of Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Frail Older Persons in the Canadian Health Care System". He presently leads the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging [ External Site Help ] funded by the Max Bell Foundation, bringing together Canadian and international investigators. He was co- PI in the development and evaluation of the SIPA model of integrated care for older persons. Dr. Bergman served on the Commission to review the health care system (Clair Commission) created by the Quebec Government in 2000.
