Any maths buffs?

Sorry no. I missed out on the cushy opportunity to teach there. A friend of mine did, a 6' 7" Welsh man.

odd. you're the spit of this phd student who taught me set theory. he was from edinburgh and was a cyclist.

My relationship with math is that of an unreciprocated love: I like maths, she does not like me back! my main issue is that I need to 'see' what I'm dealing with to understand it, and formulas stump me. Does anyone know of good books that explain maths visually? the only book on that line (and that does not assume the reader is a moron who just needs to pass an exam) is 'Calculus, a liberal art', by Priestley ["]Calculus: A Liberal Art Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics: Amazon.co.uk: W.M. Priestley: Books](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculus-Liberal-Undergraduate-Texts-Mathematics/dp/0387983791/ref=sr_1_1/278-9734607-6382955?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278511748&sr=8-1)

For my undergraduate calculus courses I used; Calculus by James Stewart. Still have a copy if you want to take a look

I juts got a copy of Marcus de Sautoy's The My5tery of Num3ers, Kindle edition to dip into on my phone. Not expecting anything ground breaking but it's always nice to see a good writer treat the classics.

Whilst I'm here. Does anyone know of any attempts to prove that primes are incalcuable. I'm sure people have been down the route of "suppose a function F that will calculate the nth prime from the n-1, n-2 , ..., first primes. F will have these properties. Find contradiction in the definition of primes."

I'd be interested in reading about the attempts.

Mat, you were right about De moivre, I was talking shit. Tommy's post above, using a Taylor expansion, is bang on

@ TheBrick(Tommy) - did you do a PhD at LSE?

I think he might have done LSD at PhE

get a fncking classroom

nice one murts
ha

why do Americans say "math" instead of "maths"?

V.B need to install a Latex parser now,

Do That!

why do Americans say "math" instead of "maths"?

probs cos they they are obese and it's effort to say it properly

For my undergraduate calculus courses I used; Calculus by James Stewart. Still have a copy if you want to take a look

Thanks, but what I'm interested in is probability and statistics (likelihood, MCMC and that kind of stuff, with some bayes thrown in). I'd like to find some book that does explain that stuff in a more visual/graphical way, because, as I said, I find formulae a royal pain the in the proverbial to follow.

Not sure if anyone answered the original post, but its a local minimum. det H > 0 and fxx > 0.

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Not sure if anyone answered the original post, but its a local minimum. det H > 0 and fxx > 0.

+1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/video/2010/jul/13/mathematics-busking

This crop circle appeared near Wiltshire on the 21st May 2010.
Each of the segment indicates a binary code based on 0 and 1.
If you use an ASCII table, the pattern transposes itself into an approximation of the Euler Equation.
Tattoo, anyone?

Good effort, but the tractor trails kind of fuck it up tho.

How do you know? Did they leave a note?

Each of the segment indicates a binary code based on 0 and 1.

The crop circle is the note...

deep

I'm quoting Fortean Times here. Just thought maths chaps might get a nice fat boner for it.

what happened to the idea of getting drunk and listening to numb3rs?

Not sure if anyone answered the original post, but its a local minimum. det H > 0 and fxx > 0.

Yeah, I knew that, I was just waiting to see if anyone else spotted it.

Vélo, it's a fucking 'local minimum' you idiot.

The crop circle is the note...

T-shirt that.

That is some pretty deep stuff, very 'alien smoking a joint'.

This crop circle appeared near Wiltshire on the 21st May 2010.
Each of the segment indicates a binary code based on 0 and 1.
If you use an ASCII table, the pattern transposes itself into an approximation of the Euler Equation.
Tattoo, anyone?

Alien 1: What shall we do when we get to earth, shall we try and make contact this time, you know say hello, get shit going with them ?

Alien 2: No, too simple.

Alien 1: What the fuck, can't we just write: "Hey human fella's we are are the fucking aliens, lol" ?

Alien 2: No, far too simple.

Alien 1: What about just 'lol' then ?

Alien 2: No, there shall be no 'lolz'.

Alien 1: What about simply: "Listen up bitches, we are the aliens, you wanna' chat ?"

Alien 2: No, no, no, far too simple, what we need to do is to to take complex mathematical formula that demonstrates the unfathomable relationship between trigonometric functions and complex exponential functionality where a base of the natural logarithm 'i' is the imaginary unit, and cos and sin are the trigonometric functions cosine and sine respectively, with the argument 'x' given in radians - and then we need to render this as a mysterious complex radial graphic representation ploughed into arable crops.

Alien 1: Ok, cool, shall I set the lazers up ?

I think you should set the lasers up.